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Google Is Paying $17 Million to 37 States for Safari Privacy Case
Nov 22, 2013Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
Tags: Google, $17 million, Safari Web
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UK Is Pursuing Damages Against Google in Line with Last Year's Accusations
Jan 29, 2013A group of UK consumers is pursuing damages against Google in line with last year's accusations that the company was storing cookies in Apple's Safari web browser, regardless of users' privacy settings. Though Google was last year ...
Tags: Google, privacy settings, cookies
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Farmers Insurance Launched New Cyber Liability and Data Breach Expense Coverage Program
Jan 24, 2013Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has launched new Cyber Liability and Data Breach expense coverage program, intended to protect main street businesses in Wyoming, US. The new coverage offers $25,000 limit for indemnity, $25,000 limit ...
Tags: Farmers Insurance, Insurance Group, security risk management services
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Google's Decision Is Not Sitting Comfortably with Security Experts
Dec 20, 2012Google's decision last week to put its Google Wallet e-wallet system into the cloud is not sitting comfortably with security experts. Though the service's move from physical handsets to the cloud has expanded its credit card compatibility ...
Tags: Google, Google Wallet, cloud, security experts
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Users Reported Seeing Their Private Messages in Facebook's Timeline View
Dec 19, 2012Facebook has denied news reports of a major privacy breach involving users who saw their private messages from 2009 and before suddenly appearing on their viewable Timeline as messages posted by their friends. Users reported seeing their ...
Tags: Facebook, hack, security breach, social media
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Make Mobile Phone Apps Were Being Investigated
Dec 13, 2012SOFTWARE companies that make mobile phone apps were being investigated to determine whether they have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from phones and sharing it with advertisers and data ...
Tags: mobile phone apps, Software, apps
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Facebook Is to Makechanges to Its Privacy Controlsto Make It Easier to Manage Settings
Dec 13, 2012Facebook is to makechanges to its privacy controlsto make it easier to manage settings and enable users to review every publicly available image. The updates include privacy shortcuts, an improved activity log and a new request and ...
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Premier's Healthcare Alliance Has Selected Beazley as The Cyber Liability Insurer
Dec 3, 2012Premier's healthcare alliance has selected Beazley as the preferred cyber liability insurer for its clients, which include more than 2,700 US hospitals and 90,000 healthcare sites. The firm's subsidiary, Premier Insurance Management ...
Tags: healthcare alliance, cyber liability, health insurance, insurance
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Private Messages Sent Between 2007 and 2009 Had Started to Appear in Timelines
Sep 25, 2012Facebook has rejected claims that private direct messages sent between users of the social network were appearing publicly on the recently-introduced timeline feature. According to reports in France,private messages sent between 2007 and ...
Tags: Facebook, rejects claim, privacy breach, Facebook shares
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FTC Has Imposed a Record Fine on Google of $22.5m (£14.4m) to Settle Charges
Aug 10, 2012As predicted last month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a record fine on Google of $22.5m (£14.4m) to settle charges that the company wrongly assured users of Apple's Safari browser that its tracking cookies were ...
Tags: Google, Safari, FTC, Thomas Rosch, DoubleClick