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1 hr ago | SymbianOne

Location Forum Releases Groundbreaking Data Privacy Guidelines

The Location Forum's Privacy Council released the public version of their Location Data Privacy: Guidelines, Assessment & Recommendations today.

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5 hrs ago | Banner-Tribune

La. online privacy bill dies

A proposal to ban employers and schools from demanding access to personal online accounts has been scrapped.

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9 hrs ago | Globe and Mail

Canada's digital privacy laws in bad need of updating: watchdog

With her mandate nearing its end at the end of the year, Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is again calling for stronger enforcement powers to help keep companies from straying from or disregarding Canadian privacy law.

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Related Topix: Social Software

11 hrs ago | Star Tribune

Dutch authorities investigating horse meat scandal arrest owner of meat processing business

Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.

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11 hrs ago | The Nation

The AP's Privacy, and Ours

The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem - the law's failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital age.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Associated Press, Journalism, Terrorism, Cellphones

11 hrs ago | Calgary Herald

Release of truck driver's work history violated privacy laws, watchdog says

A Calgary-area company violated the province's privacy law by collecting and selling a truck driver's work history - including drug test results and the reasons she was fired from jobs - to prospective employers without her consent.

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, Canada,

13 hrs ago | Mobile Marketer

Mobile data collection increases, raising new privacy concerns

With everyone from wireless carriers to the latest and greatest smartphone application tracking user behavior and trying to sell the data, mobile is proving to be a treasure trove of customer information.

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Related Topix: Marketing

17 hrs ago | KTNV-TV Las Vegas

Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights

This Privacy Policy does not govern the DoApps Local Mobile News application used for the submission of user generated content via mobile devices.

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18 hrs ago | This is Hull

Social network site criticised over privacy concerns

The site has turned its young founder Mark Zuckerberg into one of the world's richest men and boasts more than one billion active members.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Mendocino Beacon

Mendocino County sheriff looking into home burial of supervisor's wife

The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is investigating the question of whether the body of Mendocino County 5th District Supervisor Dan Hamburg's wife was buried legally, Sheriff Tom Allman said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Mendocino County, CA, Ukiah, CA

The Las Vegas Sun

Bill would block release of some Newtown records

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office and Connecticut's top prosecutor are working privately with state lawmakers to craft legislation that would block the public release of certain records from the Newtown school shooting and possibly other crimes.

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Insider Monkey

Facebook Inc (FB) Joins This 'Net Freedom-but-Privacy Group

Facebook Inc can certainly be known as a social network that has often advocated for social causes and social activism, and it has been a valuable tool in many of those areas, including calls for blood donation in the wake of natural disasters in other parts of the world and calls against censorship and for freedom of expression in repressive ... (more)

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Google, Yahoo!

Seattle Times

Bill allows Newtown families to release records

A bill crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, Connecticut's top prosecutor and legislative leaders would require the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting may be publicly released.

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Related Topix: Connecticut

WUSA9

GPS Personal Privacy Concerns

But we found one critical piece of information that owners are leaving behind, and it could be used against car owners.

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WAOW

Gillett man killed in tree crash

The Shawano County Sheriff's Department says a 75-year-old Gillett man died after the car he was riding in smashed into a tree in Bonduel.

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Related Topix: Shawano County, WI, Bonduel, WI

EurActiv.com

Polish officials debate EU's draft data privacy law

Not assisting or protecting victims of violence is a cost for society. New rules to be adopted in the Parliament this week will allow women assaulted in one country to be equally protected when they travel elsewhere in the Union.

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Fox News

Phone Co Is Selling Your Data

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.

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Modern Healthcare

Groups cite gains under EHR incentive programs

Three healthcare organizations are defending the federal health IT booster programs against calls from GOP senators who want a "reboot." Six U.S. senators who last month criticized the health information technology efforts of the Obama administration had asked for comments on issues raised in their 28-page white paper , and they received several of ... (more)

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Tue May 21, 2013

Park Record

Basin developer, citing safety, institutes ban on road cyclists

A Snyderville Basin development that maintains a rare policy allowing bicyclists onto its private roads will stop doing so next week, indicating that there are increased safety concerns as construction continues.

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Related Topix: Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Park City, UT

Travelin' Librarian

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

Abstract: In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Lincoln, NE