Three Google executives are heading back to court in Italy, where the prosecutor has appealed their acquittal on charges of allowing a video to be posted in breach of Italy's privacy laws, one of the Google execs involved said on Wednesday. ...
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The wealth of personal data that mobile apps collect on their users needs to be conspicuously stated to consumers or developers could face legal heat, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said Wednesday. Rather than resorting to ...
Tags: App Developers, mobile apps
The US government plans to reinforce its cybersecurity programme by expanding web monitoring, using a process which currently scans traffic going in and out of defence contractors and expanding it to private firms. That means employees of ...
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End Discrimination Now issued a highly critical statement regarding the new prescription drugs laws approved this week by the NYS Senate. Characterizing the “new” law as “alarmist”, “excessive” and ...
European privacy authorities have threatened action before the Summer to curb Google's collection, combination and storage of its users' personal information, after growing impatient with the company's failure to respond to their criticisms ...
European privacy authorities have threatened action before the Summer to curb Google’s collection, combination and storage of its users’ personal information. The E.U. has apparently grown impatient with the company’s ...
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In what is turning out to be a repeat of last year, privacy rights groups launched an assault against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), barely a day after the controversial legislation was reintroduced in Congress ...
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American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
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Mobile application developers should minimize privacy surprises for their customers by limiting their data collection and retention and giving users access to the data collected,California Attorney General Kamala Harris has recommended. ...
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Computerworld - Employers in Illinois and California cannot ask for usernames and passwords to the personal social media accounts of employees and job seekers under laws that took effect on Jan. 1. Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn in August ...
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Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Deutsche Telekom and other ...
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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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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 ...
ISACA has released insights from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. The results from this study confirm an understanding of the risk posed by employee activities with both work and personal devices. For example, a consistently high ...
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California's attorney general has sued Delta Air Lines for failing to include a privacy policy within the company's mobile application, an alleged violation of the state's Online Privacy Protection Act. The lawsuit, filed in Superior ...
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