Recent revelations about the extent of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency come as no surprise to those with a technical background in the workings of digital communications.
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Google must change its privacy policy or face the consequences. That’s the message from British authorities, concerned at Google’s use of our data.
The data breach notification bill is not dead in the water, observers say, despite being a casualty of a politically-charged final parliamentary sitting week.
The state of California received some 131 reports of data breaches last year as firms are failing to adopt best practices for data security.
You would have thought, maybe in light of recent events — I don’t know, perhaps a little thing called mass U.S. surveillance of foreign nationals — that the U.K. parliament, of all institutions, would be taking data protection and privacy a little more seriously.
A mobile developer has discovered what he claims is a security vulnerability in the Facebook Graph Search that allowed him to automate the compilation of a list of some 2.5 million phone numbers
Senator Patrick Leahy, along with other US senators, has introduced a bill to limit the National Security Agency (NSA) spying on domestic targets.
Some 52% of non-cloud users cited concerns about security as a barrier to adoption, while 94% of cloud users experienced security benefits, a comScore poll of more than 200 companies with 25 to 499 PC users showed.
France and five other European nations are putting Google on notice about privacy, telling the search giant that if it doesn’t amend its policies for dealing with users’ data within 90 days, large fines will be assessed.
A parliamentary inquiry has recommended that any data retention laws should include provisions to protect privacy and provide oversight.