Online Privacy & Security

In an effort to bring some clarity to the policy debate around spyware, the Anti-Spyware Coalition has attempted to nail down a solid definition for the offending software.

Spyware and the threat of unwanted programs being secretly loaded onto computers are becoming serious threats online.

"Pictorial passwords" make logging in a bit like a personal concentration game.

More than a year after the CAN-SPAM Act became law, email users say they are receiving slightly more spam in their inboxes than before, but they are minding it less.

54% of parents with teenagers use internet filters – a big jump from 2000. Yet both teens and parents believe that youth do things online that their parents would not like.

This short presentation addresses the Project’s late 2004 findings on the steps that parents are taking to protect their teenage children online.

Borking Goes Digital - The dredging up and spreading around of the negative information is now done by many people, and the internet footprints left by a target’s use of the medium has become a valuable source of evidence.

The first Federal Trade Commission complaints against pornography spammers will be cheered by email users.

A federal appeals court decision handed down on June 29 has the potential to change the way ISPs monitor email – but how many Americans will hear about it? And how many will u...

Lee's lecture covered Pew's basic findings related to privacy and information disclosure.