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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
EU plans to limit its use of private personal data The war on terror won't become a war on privacy, the European Commission says
Friday, June 04, 2010
Google relents, will hand over European Wi-Fi data In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years
Friday, June 04, 2010
Lawsuits over Google Wi-Fi sniffing pile on At least seven class action lawsuits have been filed since Google admitted to sniffing on open wireless networks
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
U.K. mulls prison sentences for data misuse If plans go through, arrested data thieves could face two years in the slammer
Monday, December 15, 2008
IBM, HP and Apple are most trusted tech firms Find out how factors such as notice of policy, choice and consent as well as access and redress regarding personal information convinced respondents that these companies were most trustworthy 
Monday, September 22, 2008
No excuse for lack of encryption Almost daily, there’s news of personal data being exposed because it wasn’t encrypted. Why wasn’t it?
Monday, April 21, 2008
UK information commissioner warns about growing data losses Official critical of government and private sector, saying they need to regain public's trust by being far more careful with personal information 
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tiered privacy in online advertising proposed by Microsoft Microsoft has proposed a tiered approach to protecting the privacy of people targeted by online advertising, saying advertisers should get permission before using sensitive, personally identifiable information to deliver ads.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Playing the patriot game A U.S. judge has questioned the constitutionality of the U.S. Patriot Act. Time for Canadian businesses to face questions about the risks of cross-border data transfer
Sunday, July 08, 2007
The future of the Web, as seen by its creator The Internet of the future is being built on symbols: what they represent and the relationships between them. Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is developing Web 3.0. In this exclusive interview, he explains his vision of the future Semantic Web, which he says will be much more powerful than anything we have seen before.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Germany adds digital fingerprints to passports Germany will store digital fingerprints in addition to digital photos in passports as one of several biometric security measures planned to fight organized crime and international terrorism.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
INFOSEC : UK reviews information handling, security An independent reviewer will release a report next month analyzing how U.K. government agencies manage and protect information, a key issue as the U.K. government looks at ways to broaden how different agencies exchange data. 
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Telco customers at risk of facing online breaches of private info Telcos conducting business online need to buck up customer privacy even as their ability to communicate improves.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Push intensifies for personal data rules change Calls for a change to international rules on data transfers intensified Monday when two leading trade associations called on U.S. and European Union decision-makers to take action.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Consumers would trade privacy for convenience While privacy remains a major concern for people around the world, a majority of consumers would share personal data if they knew the information was securely protected and if sharing it would make their lives easier, according to Unisys Corp.'s Global Study on the Public's Perceptions about Identity Management.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Consumers would trade privacy for convenience While privacy remains a major concern for people around the world, a majority of consumers would share personal data if they knew the information was securely protected and if sharing it would make their lives easier, according to Unisys Corp's Global Study on the Public's Perceptions about Identity Management.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Hacker found guilty in massive data theft case A Florida man was found guilty of stealing data from customer information management company Acxiom Corp. Friday. The prosecution estimates that Scott Levine and his defunct bulk e-mail marketing firm Snipermail.com Inc. stole more than 1.6 billion customer records by hacking into an Acxiom server. 
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
US lawmakers push for data privacy legislation Following the disclosure of two recent large-scale identity theft operations, the U.S. data brokerage industry will most likely face new laws this year governing what personal data it collects and shares, several U.S. lawmakers said Tuesday. 
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Report: privacy claims not trusted Today’s financial consumers are disillusioned, skeptical, wary of firms and don’t believe privacy claims, declares the Forrester Research report titled Winning The Changing Financial Consumer, published in July 2003.
Monday, February 25, 2002
Storage, server chargebacks gaining popularity As the economy continues to force IT shops to tighten their belts, some firms are turning to server and storage monitoring software to restrict the amount of space used by business units and to charge those departments for their use of IT and data resources.
Sunday, February 24, 2002
Storage, server chargeback software gains popularity As the economy continues to force IT shops to tighten their belts, some firms are using server and storage monitoring software to restrict the amount of space used by business units and to charge departments for their use of IT and data resources.
Thursday, December 13, 2001
Public information more public, private information less private It is a harrowing experience to sit down and imagine how much information really exists out in cyber space about each and every one of us.
Monday, November 05, 2001
Europe Parliament to vote on banning cookies The European Parliament is to vote Nov. 13 on whether to make cookies illegal. But if cookies — the small files used as a type of bookmark by Internet browsers to store information about users and a user's Web browsing patterns — are banned in the European Union, businesses in the U.K. alone stand to lose as much 187 million pounds ($432.9 million), according to a study published Thursday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau U.K. (IAB).
Thursday, November 01, 2001
Europe Parliament to vote on banning cookies The European Parliament is to vote Nov. 13 on whether to make cookies illegal. However, if cookies — the small files used as a type of bookmark by Internet browsers to store information about users and a user's Web browsing patterns — are banned in the European Union, businesses in the United Kingdom alone stand to lose as much 187 million pounds (US$273.56), according to a study published Thursday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau U.K. (IAB).
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
TRUSTe initiative would put privacy symbols on sites Internet privacy group TRUSTe launched an initiative Tuesday that aims to slap symbols and labels on Web sites so that their privacy policies are clearly and immediately understood by users.
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