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ISP criticised for distributing the same password to all new users with no firm instruction to change it

Posted on August 24, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

A European ISP has admitted that all new subscribers are given the same password. The Dutch branch of Tele2 claimed that when a new subscriber signs up, they can choose a login or are assigned one and they are then sent a letter by Tele2 with their login name, password and the date their new…

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ID-scanning to comply with privacy laws

Posted on August 22, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Controversial technology that collects bar patrons’ personal information will remain in use after B.C.’s privacy commissioner worked out a compromise with the technology’s owner. Privacy commissioner David Loukidelis ruled in July that a system made by TreoScope to collect and store customers’ names, photos, birthdates, genders and driver’s licence numbers as part of the BarWatch…

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Defunct airport fast pass company can’t sell customer data

Posted on August 20, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

A federal judge in New York has issued an order banning the operator of a now-defunct registered air traveler program from selling any of the highly personal data it collected on tens of thousands of people who signed up for the program. The order enjoins Verified Identity Pass Inc. (VIP) of New York from selling,…

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Warrants required: EFF on Google Book Search

Posted on August 19, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

The central question in the privacy debate that EFF and our partners at the ACLU of Northern California and the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley have been having with Google about Google Book Search is whether this exciting new digital library/bookstore is going to maintain the strong protections for reader…

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