Latest Privacy of telecommunications Stories
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency who was charged under the Espionage Act after he blew the whistle on waste and fraud at the spy agency, will speak at a National Press Club luncheon on Friday, March 15, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) The event is part of NPC's recognition of Sunshine Week, an initiative to underline the importance of open government and...
Leader in HIPAA-Compliant Secure Messaging Solutions Announces Several Major Health Care Enterprise Customers Wins SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TigerText, Inc., the leader in secure compliant real-time text messaging for the enterprise, today announced that in early 2013 it won four system-wide contracts with large U.S. health care organizations, including new clients Adventist Health California, Scottsdale Health Partners, Stamford Hospital, and University of...
Cloud based secure email and large file transfer service provider announces integration with Parallels Automation Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) February 04, 2013 Email2 SCP Solutions, Inc., the leader in user-friendly SaaS email encryption and secure file transfer, today announced the release of its Application Packaging Standard (APS) integration with Parallels Automation, the world’s largest ecosystem of applications for service providers and their SMB customers. This marks the debut of the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In the worst form of hypocrisy, a Senate bill went from tightening up security on your email account, to instead giving federal agencies martial law on all your Internet accounts. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, proposed a legislation called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011. The original wording of the legislation makes it harder for law enforcement to peek in on your...
BALTIMORE, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court has recently unanimously held that law enforcement's warrantless attachment of a GPS device to a car and subsequent warrantless use of the device to track the vehicle constituted an unlawful search in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Its decision in United States v. Jones fundamentally changed the legal landscape for government use of GPS tracking devices. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121108/PH09078 ) As...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A class action lawsuit has been filed by Mary Hopwood against the State of Missouri to halt the enforcement House Bill No. 1108 also known as "Kelsey's Law." This new law requires telecommunications providers to disclose subscriber physical location information if a law enforcement officer alleges an emergency need. The new law also requires providers to do "ping locates" a/k/a cell tower triangulation to determine the precise physical...
MILFORD, Conn., Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Perimeter E-Security, the leading provider of secure cloud services, today announced their new Archive Anywhere solution for Microsoft Office 365. Archive Anywhere is a cloud-based service that makes it easy for users to view and search their entire mailbox archives anywhere, on any device. It also provides redundant continuity, allowing access to email when users are unable to connect to Office 365. Eliminating the need for remote Web...
A careless text, a confidential email or pictures meant to stay private can easily ruin someone’s life and career should they fall into the wrong hands. With device loss and data theft on the rise, one needs serious protection. FoxyFone Inc. has a solution: Foxygram. Zurich, Switzerland (PRWEB) August 07, 2012 FoxyFone Inc. released Foxygram, the first free iOS App that combines an encrypted vault with secure messaging – without storing data on a central server. As many as 67,000...
With SOPA and PIPA defeated, CISPA is just around the corner for discussion. And now, the FBI is asking that providers like Gmail and Yahoo! provide a backdoor to make surveillance of internet denizens more accessible. Undisclosed Location, South America (PRWEB) May 28, 2012 As copyright protections and privacy issues wreck into each other in the US lawmaking assembly, the FBI is requesting that the CALEA, (the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994,) be altered to...
Federal officials are not required to disclose National Security Agency (NSA) records related to a 2010 cyberattack on Google users in China under the Freedom of Information Act, an appeals court ruled on Friday. The original request for communications records of discussions between the NSA and the Mountain View, California-based tech company was made by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy advocacy and civil liberties organization. However, the agency said that they...
