311 posts tagged Email Privacy

In an attempt to alleviate customer complaints about unwanted messaging charges, T-Mobile has added phone number-level blocking to its My T-Mobile service. The service empowers users to prevent certain numbers from sending SMS messages and even emailing your @tmomail address by adding filters to incoming messages.

I was actually amazed that anyone from the UK home office would suggest keeping another database after the past couple of years they have had.  However, as the Timesreported yesterday, the UK home office is planning a database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. National White Collar Crime Center, Vishing attacks are on the increase.

Plan to record all calls and emails alarms watchdog Internet companies and security experts have reacted angrily to the prospect of a government database that could keep a record of every telephone call, email and website visit made in Britain.

Related Police State 2.0 is Here: Are YOU One of the 8 Million Targeted for Roundup by US Government? May 20th, 2008 (52 minutes ago) UK government has decided to log every call, text and email of citizens by introducing a new Communications Data Bill.

UK government proposes big brother database of every email sent by Brits According to the UK government, new proposals within the Communications Data Bill are being put forward in order to prevent and detect crime as well as protect national security.

Sonera is shifting email services from servers located in Sweden for about half a million Finnish customers, the vast majority of them private individuals. It hopes to have the move completed by 8 AM Monday morning.

Silver Spring, Md. — E-mail is arguably the single-largest source of information creation for most organizations. Yet for the majority of these companies, e-mail is poorly managed—if at all, according to recent research performed by AIIM’s Market Intelligence Group.

My Sites: My Blog | My Tech Blog | Follow me on Twitter —- For the past many years, I’ve seen a trend that has been on a meteoric rise. Whatever new service you sign on for on the internet (especially the web2.0–oh-so-cool-you-have-to-tell-everyone-about-it ones), it gives you an option to fill in

Since the publication of my identity theft prevention book, Stolen Lives - Identity Theft Prevention Made Simple, several resource links listed in the book have changed. Since the book is not a dynamic document, but this blog is, I’d like to provide updated links here.