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• Telcos’ data breach notification amendment is passed

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  Telcos’ data breach notification amendment is passed : “The European Council has approved a data breach notification rule for Europe’s telecoms firms. The amendment to an EU Directive will force telcos to tell customers if they lose their data.” (Via OUT-LAW News .)
  12 hours ago

• Google centralises privacy control

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  Google centralises privacy control : (Guardian) With the new Google Dashboard , the personal data and product settings of different Google products are combined on one side to make it simpler for users to deal with them. The feature, which has just been launched, looks like a console for your personal data. Now you ...
  12 hours ago

• Securing Your Computer’s Information

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 141
  It is no secret that there are computer hackers out there and any information on our computer systems is susceptible to attack. Ensuring confidentiality of sensitive information is critical to any organization. Any compromise of information about your business, customers, employees or partners could lead to very ...
  14 hours ago

• Google Dashboard – Does It Need Another Name?

  
  Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets — Authority: 103
  Pages:  1 2 I like to pretend that I’m somewhat web savvy, and that I can generally guess where links on large websites will take me. This apparently isn’t the case with Blogger – I have a Blogger account to occasionally comment on blogs in the Google blogsphere, but despise the service enough that I ...
  3 days ago

• Super Talent Announces First USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Transfer rate 320 MB/s

  
  Tech Mania — Authority: 431
  Super Talent Technology has been making a name for itself in the Solid State Drive market with speedy SSDs and its PCIe based RAIDDrive solutions. The company is now announcing that it plans to be the first in the world to ship USB 3.0 flash drives, with first availability at the beginning of December. The SuperSpeed ...
  3 days ago

• Thinking About a ‘Privacy Commons’

  
  Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets — Authority: 103
  Pages:  1 2 In some privacy circles there is a vision of creating a simple method of decoding privacy policies. As it stands, privacy policies ‘exist’ in a nebulous domain of legalese. Few people read these policies, and fewer still understand what they do (and do not) say. The same has traditionally ...
  4 days ago

• Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics

  
  Google Watch — Authority: 425
  Google made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard , which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. Account summaries appear on the left, with links to manage those accounts (and delete data) listed cleanly on the right. The ...
  4 days ago

• Police log ‘domestic extremists’

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  Police log ‘domestic extremists’ : Thousands of activists monitored on network of overlapping databases Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases. The hidden apparatus ...
  1 week ago

• More than 5 million people now on DNA database

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  More than 5 million people now on DNA database : “ Still growing despite court ruling The estimated number of people whose DNA profile is stored by the government has broken the five million mark for the first time.… “ (Via The Register – Public Sector .)
  1 week ago

• DEFRA loses tapes – and plot

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  DEFRA loses tapes – and plot : “ Situation normal – usual staggering government incompetence It has been revealed that the UK’s Rural Payments Agency (RPA) lost tapes five months ago which contained the payment details of more than 100,000 farmers in the UK. It told DEFRA and DEFRA told nobody else, ...
  1 week ago

• UK Court of Appeal Judgment on Police Database

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  COURT OF APPEAL JUDGMENT ON POLICE DATABASE : “ On 19 October 2009, the Court of Appeal, in Chief Constable of Humberside Police v Information Commissioner (2009) EWCA Civ 1079, allowed police appeals against a decision of the IC, upheld by the IT, that data on old minor convictions (of which there are ...
  1 week ago

• Police make a mockery of data protection

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  Police make a mockery of data protection : “ Court judgment ‘forgets privacy rights of millions’ Comment While the police are very keen to retain as much data on the average citizen as they can ‘just in case’ it becomes useful, they are markedly less happy when the data being collected relates to ...
  1 week ago

• Police can keep convictions database, says Court of Appeal

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 135
  Police can keep convictions database, says Court of Appeal : “Police forces can keep a record of spent convictions on a single central database without breaking data protection laws, the Court of Appeals has said. Police would have had to delete a million records from their system if they had lost.” (Via OUT-LAW ...
  2 weeks ago

• Syracuse University Orange to Crush Student Privacy Rights

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 491
  Recently Syracuse University, my alma mater, took steps to increase campus security by installing a video-surveillance system in all entrances and exits of residence halls and one academic building. This took two years of planning for the 168 new cameras being installed on campus, but it is unclear how the ...
  4 weeks ago

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