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Rowling ruling bolsters privacy chief's view of data protection
The Court of Appeal's ruling in JK Rowling's privacy case confirms that a breach of other laws can result in an automatic breach of the Data Protection Act, an expert has said. That view has been held by the Information Commissioner but was previously

Loopt's Brian Knapp: Mapping Out a Proactive Privacy Strategy
Loopt has taken mobile mapping to a new level. The startup's application not only allows users to see where their friends are on a map, but also lets them text each other within the app and share photos. Since Loopt's beginnings, the company has been

Filemaker's Bento Personal Database
Databases are one of those things most often shrouded in arcane technical mystery. For those who've yet to utilize a database in a personal or meaningful way, it s easy to dismiss them as belonging to IT nerds and the heavy demands of major corporations

Benefits of personal health records will eclipse privacy concerns
In five years, the privacy debate over personal health records will be a over, and you and I will be storing our medical records at a central location. Why? Because the benefits of better care and less paperwork will outweigh our current fears about data

Australian Law Reform Commission readies information privacy dossier
After its largest public consultation exercise ever, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) expects that the single biggest reform to Australia's information privacy laws will be the proposal for a set of uniform and simplified principles for

Free Webinar: Customer Privacy, Malware & Government Regulation
Free Live Webinar New breeds of malware ? spyware, adware, Trojans, and viruses ? are rapidly infecting networks and exposing businesses and their customers to unprecedented security risks. The government is now mandating that corporations

Net Gain Business Consultants: America's Privacy Threatened by New AICPA Fingerprint Database
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The AICPA is allowing a foreign data-mining corporation access to tens-of-thousands of US fingerprints, and Anchorage-based Net Gain Business Consultants is leading a national movement to stop them. 'Haven't we

Net Gain Business Consultants: America's Privacy Threatened by New AICPA Fingerprint Database
Release ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The AICPA is allowing a foreign data-mining corporation access to tens-of-thousands of US fingerprints, and Anchorage-based Net Gain Business Consultants is leading a national movement to stop them.

Net Gain Business Consultants: America's Privacy Threatened by New AICPA Fingerprint Database
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Just An Online Minute... FBI Retreat: Victory For Online Privacy
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Benefits of electronic health records will soon kill privacy
In five years, the privacy debate over will be over, and you and I will be storing our medical records at a central location. Why? Because the benefits of better care and less paperwork will outweigh our current fears about data breaches and

N.M. school district posts personal data online
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Congress Passes Genetic Privacy Bill
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Just An Online Minute& FBI Retreat: Victory For Online Privacy
The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation convinced the FBI to back down from a demand for information about a user of the nonprofit digital library Internet Archive. The archive, which runs the Wayback Machine (offering around 55 billion pages of old

Greater effort needed on personal data privacy
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HSBC lost server with customer data
By Computerworld UK reporter HSBC has admitted losing a server containing data on 159,000 customers. The server went missing on 26 April from its Kwun Tong district branch in Hong Kong during renovation work on 26 April. The server held customer names,

Internet Archive Wins David-and-Goliath Privacy Tussle With FBI
The government has gone too far in its use of National Security Letters, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues. There are likely countless groups who receive National Security Letters and don't put up a fight -- like the Internet Archive did --

Facebook Commits To Stronger Safety And Privacy Measures
Facebook on Thursday said that it has agreed to work with the Attorneys General of 49 states and the District of Columbia to protect young users of its social networking service. 'Building a safe and trusted online experience has been part of Facebook

HSBC loses server containing customer data
The server - which contains account numbers, customer names and transaction details - disappeared on 26 April during renovation work at a Kwun Tong branch in east Kowloon on April 2. In a statement, the bank says the server does not contain any customer

HSBC loses computer server containing customer data
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HSBC loses server containing customer data
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Facebook, 49 states agree on user privacy plan
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook Inc. said today that it has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to protect the safety of users, particularly young ones, much as MySpace Inc., News Corp.'s rival social

AOL axes staff over privacy breach
Two AOL employees have been fired, and its chief technology officer is resigning, after the release of Web search data from thousands of AOL members prompted widespread criticism of the company. Chief technology officer Maureen Govern 'has decided to

Risky Business #30 - A Matter of Privacy
Sponsored By: ITRadio.com.au Summary: This week's installment of Risky Business - your weekly Australian IT security podcast - is now available for download, thanks to our sponsor, Verizon Business Security Solutions. It's a short show this week, and

Privacy on the Line
Neil Young demos Java multimedia project Dialogue Box 3.9: JCB phone torture test Dialogue Box 3.8: Fake finger fools fingerprint reader Dialogue Box 3.7: Place your bets on IBM's Racetrack

Hush Communications and Baneki Privacy Computing Team to Offer Comprehensive VPN-Based Network Security
Baneki Privacy Computing has entered in a co-marketing agreement with Hush Communications for its TrueOnlineSecurity VPN service ('ToS') which acts as a useful enhancement to the industry-leading suite of privacy and security tools currently offered by

BitDefender: BitDefender 2009 Provides Increased Privacy Protection, Integrated Online Security, More Control and Online Backup
BitDefender 2009 Provides Increased Privacy Protection, Integrated Online Security, More Control and Online Backup cookieGood (navigator.cookieEnabled cookieGood 0) WIMAX.TMCnet.com Coming May 2008 ITEXPO West begins in: 11:30 : Columnists:

Finjan Discovers Compromised Business & Customer Data of 40 Top-Tier Global Businesses
SAN JOSE, California, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced its discovery of a server controlled by hackers (Crimeserver) containing more than 1.4 Gigabyte of business and personal data stolen from