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Friday, February 05, 2010
Cavoukian fires back at Durham Health report criticism Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian takes issue with security vendor Websense’s criticism that her January report focuses solely on data encryption on mobile devices. She also disagrees that Canadian privacy legislation has no bite
Monday, July 25, 2005
IT managers criticize federal data-loss bill The progress of a U.S. Senate bill that would require companies to disclose any compromise of sensitive data was slowed this week to allow for more input from senators. Several IT managers interviewed this week criticized the proposed bill because it calls on companies to disclose the loss of data regardless of whether it's encrypted -- and because it calls for fines of up to US$11 million for failing to report losses. The managers contend that encrypted data is unlikely to be translated if stolen or lost. 
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Data thefts prompting IT security checks Bank of America Corp.’s loss of credit card data on some 1.2 million customers, along with other recent security incidents, has renewed interest among some IT executives in encrypting data written to backup tapes. But others maintain that simply following existing data-protection rules can prevent such losses.
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