Novo Ordo
Home of Sub Rosa Secure Email Service
and NoName Free Anonymous Email
The information commissioner today expressed concern at a proposed government database recording the entire country's telephone and internet use, calling it "a step too far for the British way of life". (more...)
Google has struck a deal to protect the personal data of millions of YouTube users in the $1bn (£497m) copyright court case brought against the video-sharing website by Viacom. (more...)
On 2 July, a US district judge, Louis L Stanton, lobbed a grenade into the cosy world of social networking, user-generated content and so-called 'cloud' computing. He ordered Google to turn over to Viacom all of its logs relating to viewing of YouTube video clips since the search engine giant acquired the video hosting site in November 2006. (more...)
This week, a cynical and sniveling Congress handed President Bush a crowning jewel in his career-long attack on civil liberties in the form of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA). As a result, the Fourth Amendment was essentially eviscerated. (more...)
Today, the full panel of Sixth Circuit judges dismissed [opinion] on procedural grounds the case of Warshak v. US, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of no-notice, warrantless searches of email stored by an email provider. A three-judge panel of Sixth Circuit judges had previously held [PDF], based in part on briefing by EFF [PDF], that the federal statute that authorized such searches of remote email accounts - the Stored Communications Act - violated the Fourth Amendment on its face. (more...)
Helena, MT - Human rights groups, journalists and the Anerican Civil Liberties Union have filed suit to challenge the new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), signed into law Thursday by President Bush. Calling the law unconstitutional and a "dragnet," the plaintiffs say it goes too far in allowing the government to spy on citizens, without oversight, even when the targets are not suspected of committing any crime. (more...)
Plans by Google to photograph millions of British homes and publish them online have been condemned as a 'gross invasion of privacy'. (more...)
In recent years, the Internet has been used by a wide variety of entities, individuals and corporations alike, in many different countries, and more often than ever before. The Internet usage growth rate for the entire world is estimated to be over 200% for the past seven years. North America makes up five percent of the world's population but accounts for 20.9% of the world's Internet usage. Asia makes up 56.5% of the world's population and accounts for 35.8% of Internet usage. As more and more people use the Internet, issues with data security and privacy on the Internet have begun to surface. A reasonable expectation of privacy is necessary for people to thrive and prosper. Although people have similar reasonable expectations of privacy, cultural concepts of individual privacy in the East may differ from the West. It is possible that culture shapes the way people live and solve their problems, in both social and legal contexts. As Asia accounts for a significant portion of Internet usage, this note recognizes that there are different policies for data security and privacy in Asia as opposed to Western countries. (more...)
Privacy has re-emerged as one of the most pressing and complex issues for everyone online, including search engines, after a sustained period of relative calm. However the rise of behavioral targeting, domestic spying/wiretapping by the Bush administration, attempts by states to regulate privacy and more aggressive moves by Europeans to protect consumers have created conflicting policies and confusion for everyone. (more...)
The US broadcasting station, Viacom responsible for MTV and Paramount Pictures have won their battle to obtain information on over a 100 million YouTube users from the US and UK. (more...)
The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer - and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman and CEO of NebuAd, Inc. (more...)
The courts have consistently upheld the rights of business owners to access information stored on company-owned information assets, including email and other messaging media. Although there were limits, like restricting data retrieval to items actually related to business transactions or relevant to an ongoing investigation, managers had a pretty free hand during internal investigations. Now, however, a U.S. Federal court seems to have placed messages sent via contracted services within the scope of employee expectation of privacy. (more...)
Experts have said the recent controversy involving India and RIM's BlackBerry services signals the need to evolve an international agreement on data security. (more...)
The internet giant Google is being forced to hand over the personal information of every person who has ever watched a video on the YouTube website as part of a billion-dollar court case in the US. (more...)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Swedes may cherish openness and transparency, but not enough to accept a new law giving the government the right to snoop on all e-mails and phone calls crossing the country's borders. (more...)
I just finished a news story about VeriSign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) secure OpenID services chosen by Microsoft for HealthVault users. The story discusses VeriSign's DNS services and its OpenID services and asks if this is a problem or a feature. Is this a possible privacy issue or could the two technologies be used to strengthen OpenID and encourage its use. (more...)
The Internet is a world penitentially embroiled in a Cold War. Now, as then, an arms race between factions is constantly ongoing, each working to counter the efforts of the other. Into this race, comes deep packet inspection, a serious threat to online privacy. (more...)
An appeals court ruling makes it more difficult for employers to sniff around in workers' electronic communications. (more...)
When he was fired, Scott Sidell was angry enough. Then he found out that his former employer was reading his personal Yahoo e-mail messages, after he had left the company. (more...)
As a follow-up to some deeply cynical speculation about the 94 Dems who 180'd on FISA, I'd like to add that some Democrats in Congress can apparently still find their spines. That's cheering, right? (more...)
Malicious spam has tripled in volume in a week, most of it caused by the Srizbi botnet, according to research by the Marshal TRACE team. (more...)
Nearly two-thirds of marketing professionals have lost consumer information over the past two years, and in 90 per cent of cases the loss or theft went unreported. (more...)
Want to know how well a company protects its customers' data? Don't talk to its security and compliance officers. Instead, try its marketing department. (more...)
June 21 (Bloomberg) -- The risks of putting sensitive information in e-mails were disregarded by two ex-Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers indicted for fraud who allegedly exchanged incriminating messages, former prosecutors said. (more...)
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has made it more difficult for employers to snoop on e-mails and text messages their workers send from company accounts. (more...)
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Sweden on Wednesday adopted contentious legislation that will give officials sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that crosses the Nordic nation's borders. (more...)
Ask.com wrote an open letter to privacy advocates and the California Attorney General's office, toting a more prominent "Privacy" link on its website. (more...)
Today the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Quon v. Arch Wireless, holding that "users of text messaging services such as those provided by Arch Wireless have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their text messages." (more...)
MySpace has won a $6 million judgment against a spammer who allegedly used the popular social networking site to bombard users with unwanted advertisements. (more...)
Lawmakers in Sweden debated a controversial bill on Tuesday which would allow all emails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security. (more...)
Sweden's "Big Brother" law, allowing the government to snoop on all outgoing cross-border emails, could be blocked tomorrow by a handful of rebel parliamentarians ready to defy their party whips. (more...)
Firms Have Strong Desire to Exploit Customers' Personal Info (more...)
Is Google getting ready to serve up display ads to people based on their Web surfing habits (as opposed to their Web searching habits)? Ever since the DoubleClick acquisition closed, industry watchers have been waiting to see how Google would dip its toes into behavioral ad targeting. One rumor going around is that Google is going to target ads to people who use the Google Toolbar, which is now bundled with Dell PCs. (more...)
2008 March 30:
The domain ProtectedSpeech.us is now available as an address
for users of our Sub Rosa
Private Email subscription service.
2008 February 17:
Novo Ordo announces Sub Rosa
Private Email, our new secure email subscription service.
2008 January 13:
Novo Ordo announces NoName
Free Anonymous Email, its first product offering.
2008 January 05:
Novo Ordo moves its servers to Panama in preparation
for new product offerings.
2007 November 10:
Novo Ordo begins alpha testing anonymous email service.
2007 October 16:
Novo Ordo goes live!