Google has admitted to the Information Commisioner's Office that it failed to delete all the Wi-Fi data collected by its Street View vehicles. Last month, the ICO demanded proof that the Wi-Fi data collected by the Google Street View ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that total benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011-12 were GBP3.2 billion, equating to 2% of total benefit expenditure of GBP 159bn. Total underpayments in 2011-12 are ...
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
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AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 and refund certain customers said to have been overcharged on smartphone plans, after the Federal Communications Commission found that some customers were moved to more expensive monthly plans without their ...
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Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. European ...
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European Commission gave the green light to the US component manufacturer Precision Castparts Corporation's acquisition of the US titanium producer Timet. The Commission after an in depth investigation concluded that this transaction would ...
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IDG News Service - A French court fined a man 150 euros (US$193) on Thursday for failing to secure his Internet connection, according to a spokesman for the French High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on ...
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Bloomberg reported that ThyssenKrupp AG ,Vossloh AG and Moravia Steel were sued for damages by Mr Deutsche Bahn AG for fixing the prices for rails. Deutsche Bahn filed a suit at the frankfurt regional court after talks over a settlement ...
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BD Live reported that aveng subsidiary Trident Steel’s ZAR 8.6 million fine set by the Competition Commission was confirmed by the Competition Tribunal on Wednesday. The settlement followed a commission investigation which found ...
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Google's latest attempt to add more content to its local business listings by buying travel brand Frommer has been challenged by the Consumer Watchdog. The acquisition – the financial details of which were not disclosed – ...
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Swedish authorities now suspect Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of serious fraud and another data intrusion in addition to the alleged hacking of IT company Logica that led to his arrest, public prosecutor Henrik Olin said ...
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined 120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. A solicitor that worked within the organisation was found to have sent 11 emails containing ...
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A West Midlands steel company has been ordered to pay more than GBP 146,000 in fines and costs after one of its employees was crushed to death by a 15 tonne crane. Mr Wilfred Williams 57 of Tividale, Warley, was carrying out maintenance ...
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UK-based Premier Foods has been fined £15,000 for exceeding the permitted levels of trade effluent that was discharged into Severn Trent Water's sewer system.The company was also asked to pay legal costs of £5,106.18. The ...
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