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Remarkably, even though reports of cyber-crime and identity theft are through the roof, people still use passwords like “god”, “abc123” or the classically bad, “password”. These people can be loosely defined as idiots.

BT wants thousands of its broadband customers to voluntarily participate in a third trial of Phorm’s advertising targeting system starting tomorrow, the two companies announced today.

A new report from the government’s architecture and design group believes that UK citizens should be subjected to random carbon spot-checks, and intensive surveillance of their diets, transport and waste disposal habits.

In the long running battle over video game classification, Paul Jackson, director general of the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), has slammed the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), claiming it is not fit for purpose when it comes to game classifications.

A highly influential group of European privacy experts said last week that it will lead hearings with Google over claims that EU data protection laws do not apply to the search giant.

Nintendo’s revolutionary Wii console could face a US sales ban, after an American manufacturer has claimed that four of its patents for on-screen navigation and control technology have been infringed by the famous Japanese company.

A government watchdog agency has slapped the wrists of the US Department of Homeland Security for failing to adequately protect the nation’s critical computer networks, in a report that picks out the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s lack of efficiency.

Computer manufacturer Dell’s shares fell by 8.3 percent in early Wall Street trading today. The drop came after the firm warned investors that it would see a “further softening” in computer sales this quarter. In a short statement released by the company, it said it was “seeing further global softening in the global end-user demand [...]

Pima County Superior Court, Arizona, Judge Deborah Bernini has approved requests to allow the examination of the software used in a new generation of machines that examine blood alcohol levels of motorists.

YouTube, the user generated video site, has caved in to pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, so has laid down the law on videos that depict violence and terrorism. A statement on YouTube’s Community Guidelines page announced the changes: