Personal Privacy, Mobile Computing and Censorship

With more and more of out lives being organized into smaller and smaller chips these days, it is inevitable if you are a professional that you’d be using a laptop by now, or will use one in the near future for personal use.

From personal identification to contacts, to bank details and company designs. Mobile devices of today can be one hell of a baggage to carry. That is the very reason both the individual consumers and the governments around the world are talking cautions to safe guard their interests.

An American Senator is trying to get a bill passed that penalizes all such companies that are dealing with foreign companies, such as ISPs, involved in the mindless game of censorship. One such name that comes to mind is Google, operating in China.

PC World ran an awesome pictorial on how to protect your laptops (as expensive as they may be) from thieves using simple pad locks, etc. Electronic Frontier Foundation is a watch dog over e-media and cyber laws that had posted a detailed article about new rule that allows immigration officers to run scans on all laptops crossing the borders.