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  1. P3P and the Future of PETsRead the original story

    4 min ago | Privacy Digest

    I will be speaking on Thursday at the European Commission's Workshop on the Economic Benefits of Privacy-enhancing Technologies in Brussels.

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  2. Activists hijack 300 Facebook groupsRead the original story

    2 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

    ... original conditions after it makes its point. "Our main goal is to draw attention to questions concerning online privacy awareness," CYI said. "People have even lost their jobs over Facebook content. We wanted to do something about this." Facebook ...

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    Related Topix: Social Software

  3. Unisys Unveils Cloud StrategyRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Scoop

    ... while safeguarding business operations and data. In a recent online poll conducted by Unisys, security and data privacy concerns were cited by more than half of the respondents as the most significant impediment to the adoption of cloud computing ...

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    Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, Cloud Computing, Outsourcing

  4. The Seventh Circuit Rules Against Jamie KalvenRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Chicago Reader Online

    ... the public deserved to know who they were. Lefkow agreed. The officers on the list had an interest in their own privacy, she acknowledged, but it was diminished by "their status as public officials" and outweighed by the public's interest in ...

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    Related Topix: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, US News, Chicago, IL

  5. Gadget: Microsoft's new anti-virus programRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Nashua Telegraph

    ... monitor "tracking cookies," the inert text files saved on computers by Web sites and advertisers that may raise privacy concerns but do not pose a security threat. In action, Security Essentials used little memory, had no discernible effect on ...

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    Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Microsoft, Software, Computers, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology

  6. Is Infochimpsa Aggregated Data a Boon to Researchers or a Privacy Nightmare?Read the original story

    4 hrs ago | GigaOM

    ... heftier version of its scrape of Twitter, which was taken down at the behest of the micro-messaging site over user privacy concerns. By releasing curated, anonymized chunks of data, the company may avoid most of the user privacy concerns that arose ...

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    Related Topix: Twitter

  7. Microsoft's Xbox Live Million-Man PermabanRead the original story w/Photo

    9 hrs ago | NBC Bay Area

    ... time being. Photo by Collin Allen . Jackson West wonders if legitimate users were also affected, and whether online privacy groups intend to protest.

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    Related Topix: Microsoft Xbox, Video Games

  8. Hundreds of Facebook Groups HackedRead the original story

    Tuesday | Jeremy Wagstaff's LOOSE wire

    ... to seek more information . Here is his statement: Our main goal is to draw attention to questions concerning online privacy awareness. We have seen too many examples where friends and relatives of ours have suffered from their lack of in-depth ...

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    Related Topix: Social Software, Science / Technology, Computer Security, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

  9. IT Compliance : Business ImperativeRead the original story

    Friday Nov 6 | Dataquest

    ... a player in the IT/ITeS vertical will need to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley if it is listed in the US, apart from the privacy laws of the countries where it operates. Similarly, banking and financial sectors need to comply with BASEL II, GLBA, PCI/DSS ...

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  10. Fraud alert: Winners customers warnedRead the original story

    Jan 18, 2007 | Canada.com

    ... locations of U.S. Based discount chain TJX Co. were broken into. Another fraud alert came Thursday when Canada's privacy watchdog has announced that the privacy of close to half a million clients of Talvest Mutual Funds, a subsidiary of Canadian ...

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    Related Topix: Retail, TJX Companies

  11. Update online privacy laws nowRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | TheHill.com

    Congress and the Federal Trade Commission are gathering information to consider rules to protect consumer privacy on-line from potential commercial abuse.A Efforts at reform are missing the mark if they dona t address the very real privacy concerns raised by government surveillance and other law enforcement demands for bulk data collection and ...

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  12. Activists hijack Facebook groups 'to expose holes'Read the original story

    6 hrs ago | Canada.com

    ... original conditions after it makes its point. "Our main goal is to draw attention to questions concerning online privacy awareness," CYI said. "People have even lost their jobs over Facebook content. We wanted to do something about this." Facebook ...

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    Related Topix: Social Software

  13. California AG rules secret phone recordings weren't illegalRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | Living Here - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee

    ... on Nov. 11, 2009. Attorney General Jerry Brown's office has sparked debate about its interpretation of state privacy laws after it determined that a spokesman had not done anything illegal by secretly taping conversations with news reporters. At ...

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    Related Topix: Gerber, CA, Alameda County, CA, San Francisco County, CA, San Rafael, CA

  14. Cleveland company developing Google-like service to quickly analyze electronic medical recordsRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | The Plain Dealer

    ... records. The technology strips patient identities from the data as it is collected, in compliance with federal privacy laws covering health records, McHale said. McHale will be joined shortly by Charlie Lougheed, as president and chief technology ...

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    Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

  15. Loudoun delegates reveal 2010 Richmond agendasRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | Loudoun Times

    ... top issue, and he's already undertaking initiatives on this front with colleagues. Technology issues such as online privacy are a major concern of May's. "The rules of the road" in terms of state legislation "haven't kept pace with the evolution of ...

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    Related Topix: Autism, Health, Fairfax County, VA

  16. Keeping cyber intruders at bayRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | Express India

    ... Surveys have also revealed that protection of customer data is a key business objective for the corporate world. Privacy protection, i.e. protecting the personal information of clients, is at the heart of data protection. Personally identifiable ...

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    Related Topix: Financial Services

  17. #defrag 2009: Exchanging Ideas to Increase ProductivityRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | CMSWire

    ... The learning lesson for integrating a social networking tool with a traditional email interface? Privacy concerns run rampant when there is a sidebar outlining extraneous information regarding the sender whose email you are reading. The pros of ...

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  18. User Consent to be Required for Internet Cookies in Europe by the EU...Read the original story

    7 hrs ago | LawPundit

    ... nearly every Internet web page or blog visited by the user. The conception that "counts" of visitors somehow "invade privacy" is a ludicrous concept and it is hoped that this is excluded from the "consent" category. The EDPS (European Data ...

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    Related Topix: Internet Service Providers

  19. Firefox, five years out of Phoenix's ashes, aims at mobile, video, offlineRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | NetworkWorld

    ... should take part in a few new areas -- to act as the user agent it should be," Blizzard wrote. "Issues around data, privacy and identity loom large. You will see the values of Mozilla's public benefit mission reflected in our product choices in ...

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    Related Topix: Microsoft

  20. Proposed U.S. Data Breach Laws Need Further WorkRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | Gartner

    ... focuses on yesterday's problems. On 5 November 2009, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 (S.1490) and the Data Breach Notification Act (S.139) . Under the proposed laws, all private and ...

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