IDG News Service-Dutch ministries can keep using social networking tool Yammer for internal communication despite worries in the parliament that data could secretly be seized by U.S.law enforcement agencies under the U.S.Patriot ...
Computerworld - Despite calls for Facebook to stop planned changes to the way it makes privacy policy, analysts are divided over whether the changes would be bad for users. Last week, Facebook announced that it's making an adjustment to ...
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CIO-Regardless of the security expertise and resources you apply to securing your assets,you are unlikely to achieve much unless you focus on the most vulnerable element of your organization:your employees. "Computers have become much ...
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Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with. Facebook, in an announcement on the site ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...
Proposals for the new European data protection framework are over-engineered and need a lot of work,says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham. In their current form,the proposals are also unaffordable because regulators would need ...
Tags: forming new Data Rules
ALLIANCE, OH, November 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Novosoft, the acclaimed provider of data backup solutions, presented the hard disk imaging backup software functionality for Handy Backup, version 7.3.0, oriented toward migration from ...
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Facebook users will no longer be allowed to vote on proposed policy changes at the company because their comments weren't good enough. The move prompted data protection regulators in Europe to seek urgent clarification from the company. ...
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Removable hard disk storage capacities in 500GB, 1TB, and 1.5TB RDX cartridges deliver affordable video retention with significantly lower TCO. SoleraTec LLC, a provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage products, ...
Europe's top data privacy agency has launched a formal investigation into Microsoft's privacy policy. Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party that it would proceed with a probe. On ...
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Converged storage and server maker Nutanix has announced upgraded hardware and a new operating system (OS) version with support for Red Hat's KVM hypervisor in addition to existing VMware support. Nutanix debuted in 2011 with its ...
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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is to re-open its investigation into the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google's Street View vehicles as they collected images for Google Maps. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)is ...
Big businesses risk falling foul of international data protection laws as governments around the world take a tougher approach to privacy. Countries including Korea,Japan and China are introducing tough new privacy laws which frequently ...
A data breach at Essex County Council, which has exposed up to 400 vulnerable people to identity theft, is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The security lapse, by a council employee, involved the names, ...
Tags: ICO, Essex County Council, investigation, computing
Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for ...
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