Ryan O’Grady writes: OzHomevalue is a Realestate.com.au owned website for property vendors providing them with sales data information in relation to the suburb where the vendor’s property is located. From their homepage: OzHomeValue provides a comprehensive property report to help find the value of your home. Try our easy to use, obligation free system and…
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NL: KPN under fire over internet privacy
Criticism is mounting of telecoms company KPN for using software known as Deep Packet Inspection to monitor what extra services mobile internet users are accessing. KPN said on Thursday it used DPI to monitor use of the WhatsApp application for smart phones but denied it analyses actual messaging and content. Vodafone has also admitted using…
Adobe Flash update puts users in charge of privacy
Robert McMillan reports: Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web. The Flash Player 10.3 update, released Thursday, lets users manage Flash cookies using their browser’s privacy settings or through a…
FBI fights to protect ISPs that snoop on their customers
Dan Goodin reports: The FBI has finally come clean on the real reason it doesn’t want to name phone and internet service providers that participate in a sweeping surveillance program that taps international communications without a warrant: Customers would get mad and dump or sue the providers. This rare piece of honesty came in a…