The Food and Drug Administration and three pharmaceutical companies today announced an initiative to combat drug counterfeiting and fraud by putting radio frequency identification technology on the labels of drug bottles.
This action continues the FDA’s commitment to promote the use of RFID technology by the U.S. drug supply chain by 2007.
The first drugs to get […]

An anti-piracy bill signed last week by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes it a crime for people to share copyrighted music or movies online without providing a valid e-mail address.
Any person, except a minor, who is located in California, who disseminates a particular recording or audiovisual work to more than 10 other people without […]

The World Privacy Forum and 27 other privacy and civil liberties groups have sent a letter to Google urging the company to suspend its Gmail service until the privacy issues are adequately addressed.
The letter, sent to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, expressed concern over Google’s plan to scan the text of all incoming […]

JetBlue Airways confirmed that it had provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor as part of a program to “track down terrorists and other ‘high risk’ passengers,” New York Times reported.
The airline company violated its own privacy policies when it turned over the data to the contractor. The information received by Torch Concepts, […]

The Bush administration released a report last month on the U.S Postal Service, recommending that the agency “aggressively purse” the development of an intelligent mail system. The system would utilize barcodes or “smart stamps” to identify the sender, the destination and the class of mail.
CNET News.com reported “USPS already offers mail-tracking services to corporate customers. […]

NEW YORK — The Virginia Supreme Court ruled against America Online’s efforts to protect the identity of one of its subscribers and sided with an earlier ruling that supported Nam Tai Electronics Inc.’s request to subpoena the identity of an AOL user as part of a complaint that alleged libel, trade libel and violations of […]