A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer organizations to start answering customer emails individually. Last month, Google received ...
Tags: Consumer Service Lawsuit, Google
Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto on Monday after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier. The overwhelming majority of the company's 3,000 corporate users wanted the Q10 ...
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More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information. This week, the FTC ...
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For a few months earlier this year, the personal data of customers of the Schnucks supermarket chain was exposed to hackers whose work went undetected until after a card processing company issued an alert about fraudulent activity on a ...
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Consumers' home PCs were no safer than they were last year, our annual State of the Net survey found. Heavy spam afflicted 43 percent of those surveyed. We've used our survey to extrapolate the number of consumers affected nationally. ...
Online deals service LivingSocial was hacked at the weekend, and the personal data of more than 50 million customers may have been affected. The company said on Friday on the US that customers' names, email addresses, dates of birth and ...
Tags: Computer Products, Online deals
The "right to be forgotten" online, a principle that broadly aims to govern when and how websites are allowed to serve cookies to users' devices, was dealt a blow today by privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). ...
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Google must pay a $190,000 fine in Germany for gathering and storing emails, photos, passwords and chat protocols from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Google Street View cars, Hamburg's Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of ...
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Samsung announced today that its next-generation Galaxy S4 smartphone will be available by the end of April on seven major U.S. carriers, as well as seven retailers. The device runs Android 4.2.2 and includes a 5-in. Super AMOLED ...
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The White House wants more protection for the privacy of citizens in the latest redraft of the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). CISPA, which has been pushed forward by the House Permanent Select ...
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According to a new security report released today by NQ Mobile Inc., a global provider of mobile Internet services, mobile malware threats increased 163 percent to more than 65,000 in 2012. The company warns, however, that the problem is ...
A Chinese hacking ring, which has been active for four years, has been stealing data from players of more than 30 massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing games. That's according to research by security software vendor Kaspersky ...
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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 ...
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The issues with sharing confidential patient information needs to be tackled before the NHS attempts to go paperless, according to Dr Jonathan Richardson, clinical director of informatics at the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation ...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a warning for organizations that post a lot of business and personal information on public web pages and social media sites: Don't do it. Phishers, the agency said in an alert this week, look ...
Tags: web pages, social media