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Few who follow the ongoing, often vociferous international debate about the proper balance between protecting society and guarding civil rights and personal privacy will have been totally surprised last week to learn that the US government’s secretive National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regularly access internet and phone records.
The federal privacy watchdog says she will look into any implications for Canada posed by possible U.S. government snooping on a wide scale.
Dropbox has recently revised its claims on how securely they maintain user data, prompting a lawsuit claiming that Dropbox has misled its customers about its privacy policy and encryption processes.
News that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation, tapping into the servers of Internet giants has exposed the US government’s double standards in gathering online data, cyber security analysts have said.
There is no ‘safe haven’ for investors when it comes to data security and the onus is on them to scrutinise management.
The Government must tell the public if it has access to information about New Zealanders it may have received from the United States’ National Security Agency, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
More than a year ago, the European Union’s top justice official proposed a tough set of measures for protecting the privacy of personal data online.
As organizations develop new products, services, infrastructures, and business processes that facilitate the collection and management of an ever-wider range of customer data, they’re discovering that privacy issues must be addressed from the very beginning of the design process.
In his Opinion on the EC’s proposed legal framework for Europol, the European Data Protection Supervisor states that strong data protection principles – of the sort that would prevent the UK’s Communications Data Bill – would improve rather than weaken law enforcement.
