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Sunday, April 21, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/369905p-2979546c.html Privacy software reveals intrusive 'Web bugs' DEE ANN DIVIS, UPI Science and Technology Editor SAN FRANCISCO (April 19, 2002 8:13 p.m. EDT) - Internet bugs - tiny, hidden images that can cue your computer to send information on you to advertisers, are being caught and dissected by a new software program called Bugnosis, one of a number of Privacy Enhancing Technologies or PETs discussed Friday at the 12th Annual Conference of Computers, Freedom and Privacy. Other technologies presented during CFP and a sister conference, Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2002, included methods to hide the names of persons making Internet queries and new ways to send private messages through mechanisms like message timing information....
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