Currently, federally mandated window stickers on used cars specify warranty terms and inform consumers of their legal rights. Now those stickers are about to change, and consumer advocates say the new ones take a step backward. The ...
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Electronics giant Sony has been fined by Britain's data watchdog for a breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers using PlayStation video games consoles. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK ...
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The Lenovo Environment Affairs and Specifications Communication Conference 2012, organized by Lenovo Group and sponsored by SGS, was successfully held in Shanghai and Shenzhen in Oct 2012. Over 500 representatives from Lenovo suppliers ...
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 ...
Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Among the surprises it held for me was SBupsk. One of 47 topics about which Facebook thinks I am interested in ...
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Businesses will face tough penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation. Companies could face fines of up to 2% of their turnover for breaching a proposed EU data protection law. “It is ...
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OSC, the financial risk management and insurance services company, has selected Kirk A Stephens as senior vice president and chief compliance officer. OSC is owned by Breckenridge Insurance Group, an underwriting manager, insurance ...
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Hackers have been able to exploit security flaws in a new government jobs website to steal personal information about job applicants. The Universal Jobmatch website has been described as a"scammer's paradise"in a Channel 4 News ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 is seen by many as representing an evolutionary jump for the operating system (OS), but what about security? Has there been an evolutionary leap there? In the run-up to the launch, much has been said about the new ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
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Facebook will suspend its facial recognition photo tagging service in Europe by 15 October,following a privacy audit by the Irish Data Protection Commission(DPC). The technology,which suggests when registered users could be tagged in ...
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IDG News Service-The Norwegian Tax Administration and the State Educational Loan Fund's use of Google Analytics violate the country's privacy laws,because the agencies have no control over how Google uses information about users,the ...
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