California requires Google, Apple and other tech giants to enforce privacy ...
San Jose Mercury News
A key thrust of the agreement is to clarify that the state's existing Internet privacy law, the California Online Privacy Protection Act, applies to independent developers of mobile apps and the large corporations that sell or distribute them through ...

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Summary Box: California to require advance warning from mobile apps collecting ...
Washington Post
MOBILE PRIVACY: California has decided the makers of mobile applications fall under a 7-year-old state law governing online privacy. That means mobile apps seeking to protect personal information must give consumers advance warning before their ...

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Hungary feels wrath of Rehn as new economic order takes hold
Irish Times
The manoeuvre compounds tension with the combative Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, who stands accused of blunting the independence of the country's central bank, judges and data protection body. It also heralds a new phase in Rehn's effort to ...

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Facebook and the future: the battle heats up between business and privacy ...
Irish Times
Months before Facebook goes public, the David and Goliath legal battle is being fought on Irish soil, with the Data Protection Commissioner as referee and the rest of Europe looking on. Austrian law student Max Schrems has filed a detailed challenge to ...

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Fort Worth buys cell phone tracker, privacy rights not considered
WFAA
Legal issues were not mentioned in the Council's agenda packet. The American Civil Liberties Union says it is well aware of the KingFish and other devices made by Harris Corporation. The group is monitoring court cases for protection of privacy laws ...

Garda Pulse system audit to go ahead
Irish Times
THE OFFICE of the Data Protection Commissioner is to carry out an audit of the Garda Pulse computer system in the next few months, to ensure the database, which stores valuable information including criminal records, is only accessed for Garda purposes ...

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Appeals court finds mug shots off limits
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
But the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit held that requiring law enforcement to turn over the shots under FOIA would violate the privacy rights of the individuals in the photographs. "There is little to suggest that releasing booking photos ...

State AGs Target New Google Privacy Policy
Wall Street Journal
Earlier this month, the chairman of the European Union's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party wrote to Mr. Page that the new privacy policy could hinder the protection of personal user data--and asked that implementation of the new policy be ...

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Is Canada still free and democratic?
Surrey Leader
... out this public servant does not even know what his own bill says, and he has the nerve to demean anyone daring to question a bill that represents a serious departure and invasion of Canadians' civil and human rights, not to mention privacy laws.

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State AGs Target New Google Privacy Policy
Fox Business
Earlier this month, the chairman of the European Union's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party wrote to Page that the new privacy policy could hinder the protection of personal user data--and asked that implementation of the new policy be delayed.

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Web privacy standards: easy to break, hard to enforce
Ars Technica
There are few technological barriers preventing companies like Google and Facebook from tracking users to serve up personalized ads, and there are few legal barriers as well. To dig into these issues, Ars spoke with Lorrie Faith Cranor, ...

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Is Cloud Computing A Global Market Yet? Nyet
InformationWeek
European countries frequently object to the US Patriot Act and use it as an excuse for more barriers. In fact, the powers of the act granting permission to inspect data when hunting for evidence of terrorist activity are often found in their own laws, ...

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Software alliance connects intellectual property to cloud computing growth
ITBusiness.ca
But a Canadian cloud service provider says that data privacy is the top cloud concern for businesses, and namely fear of the Patriot Act in the US that has them keeping their data behind the corporate firewall. RackForce Networks Inc. has attracted ...

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Rules patchwork threatens Cloud computing
CIO Australia
It cited the European Union's proposed "Data Protection Regulation" which it said "has the potential to undermine its benefits with new, overly prescriptive rules". It said the regulations "threaten to undermine the economic advances that a truly ...

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Rules patchwork threatens Cloud computing
Computerworld Australia
It cited the European Union's proposed "Data Protection Regulation" which it said "has the potential to undermine its benefits with new, overly prescriptive rules". It said the regulations "threaten to undermine the economic advances that a truly ...

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Calif. Mandates Obligatory Privacy Disclosures for Mobile Apps
PC Magazine
The FTC said that it plans an additional review to determine if any laws have been broken, specifically the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. This isn't the first time Harris has stepped in to provide better protections to the state's consumers ...

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Alabama Court decision casts doubt on Roe v Wade
Jornal.us News Agency
States are forbidden to protect unborn children only in ways that conflict with a woman's " right of privacy'...this encompasses a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." Unless a state's law conflicts with a woman's "right" to an ...

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Dublin City Council Info Transfer Didn't Breech Privacy
98FM
That's the finding of the Data Protection Commissioner who's been examining the hand-over of accounts from the local authority to the private waste collection firm, who're now in charge of Dublin's household bins. The Council did get a rap on the ...

Iomega Ships SMB-centric StorCenter PX Server Class Series NAS
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: Iomega last week announced the worldwide launch of the new StorCenter PX Server Class Series of Network Attached Storage (NAS) to offer a higher level of performance and advanced data protection for SMBs. Available in desktop and rackmount ...

Rules 'Threaten Cloud Computing Growth'
IndustryWeek
It cited the European Union's proposed "Data Protection Regulation" which it said "has the potential to undermine its benefits with new, overly prescriptive rules." It said the regulations "threaten to undermine the economic advances that a truly ...

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DCC criticised over waste transfer notice
RTE.ie
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has criticised the lack of notice given by Dublin City Council to customers about the transfer of its waste collection service. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has criticised the lack of ...

Vembu Unveils Secure, Managed Backup Solution for MSPs
The Complete Managed Services Resource
By Carrie Schmelkin When it comes to data protection and disaster recovery, managed hosting providers not only have to guarantee these services, they practically have to swear by them. In an effort to address the complex requirements surrounding data ...

'Privacy doesn't confer right on consenting adults to do illegal act'
The Hindu
The Delhi High Court judgment, declaring ultra vires Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code relating to unnatural sex between two consenting adults and holding that it is violative of the right to privacy, is clearly erroneous, Amarendra Saran argued in ...

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Imation Targets SMBs With DataGuard Backup Appliances
TechWeekEurope UK
The appliances are designed to enable SMBs to safeguard their information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure. The DataGuard Model R4 and Model T5R appliances use hard drives, removable RDX disk cartridges, ...

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Peter Angelos sues Facebook over privacy rights
Bizjournals.com
The suit claims various violations of California and federal laws. “The days when online service providers can run roughshod over the privacy rights of their customers are over,” William “Billy” Murphy Jr., a founding partner at Murphy PA, ...

Is that Thought Police I see on the horizon?
Orangeville Banner
Canadians shouldn't be left scrambling to erase their browsing history, as it's an outright invasion of privacy — even more so than the long-gun registry, which Toews argued invaded Canadians privacy rights. Digging the government's nose through our ...

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Cloud Computing's Global Disparity
Information Management (blog)
BSA member organizations and the US Department of Commerce have urged Congress in recent years to revise data security measures and the decades-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act to better reflect the worldwide spread of cloud computing, ...

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Toronto Maple Leafs Game Face Challenge
Toronto Star
The act of entering the Contest constitutes acceptance of the Contest rules and the decisions of the Contest judges, which decisions shall be final and binding upon all entrants. Sponsor: The Contest sponsor is Toronto Star (“Sponsor”).

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Three Jews, One Thong
Tablet Magazine
... mostly full of serious stories and a defense of civil liberties from the Wisconsin Democrat who, as a senator (he was unseated in the 2010 midterms), was the only member of the chamber to vote against the Patriot Act back in the fall of 2001.

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Sophos and World-renowned Cryptographers Host Free Workshops on Cutting-edge ...
Bradenton Herald
By Utimaco Safeware AG IT security and data protection company Sophos and its hardware security experts will host free HSM (hardware security modules) workshops at this year's RSA Conference, from February 28th to March 1st.

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Murphy PA Files Nationwide Class Action Lawsuit Against Facebook for Alleged ...
Sacramento Bee
"The days when online service providers can run roughshod over the privacy rights of their customers are over," said Murphy, PA Founding Partner William "Billy" Murphy, Jr. "Companies that operate commercial websites, such as Facebook, need to realize ...

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EU Asks High Court to Decide if ACTA Infringes on Rights
PC Magazine
The commission wants the court to determine if ACTA infringes on rights like "freedom of expression and information or data protection and the right to property in case of intellectual property," EU Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in a Wednesday ...

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Radio IP Software Achieves 'Secured by RSA® Certified Partner' Status for its ...
National Post
Ryan Fournier, Senior Director, Product Management, Identity and Data Protection, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), adds, “End users today demand mobile productivity which means organizations must provide highly secure and convenient ...

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Field Fisher Waterhouse | Former chief executive charged with corruption ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
In both cases, the contested injunctions: Would have unfairly prioritised the rightsholders' property rights over users' privacy rights and rights to freedom of information. Netlog is the operator of an online social networking platform.

If America's future is to be secure, regressing to a religious state is not ...
OpEdNews
In their continued resistance of decisions by the Supreme Court and push for autonomy, many States have begun to deny their obligation to protect citizen's rights to privacy and by proxy, choice by enacting tougher, anti-abortion laws.

Healthcare IT News From HIMSS 2012
Data Center Knowledge
The joint solution highlights the Android platform and proactively addresses mobile security and privacy by incorporating a new layer of data protection with automated mobile device and application management. “This solution underscores the important ...

Attachmate Corporation, Handd Business Solutions Partner for Secured IT ...
The Complete Managed Services Resource
Data security is a necessity for the smooth functioning of operational efficacy and data protection standards as well as governance to ensure that a file leakage disaster does not happen. Chris Farrelly, sales director at HANDD File Transfer said, ...

Radio IP Software Achieves 'Secured by RSA® Certified Partner' Status for its ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Ryan Fournier, Senior Director, Product Management, Identity and Data Protection, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), adds, “End users today demand mobile productivity which means organizations must provide highly secure and convenient ...

11 King's Bench Walk | Data Protection: The EU Reform Proposals
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
As is well known, the main element of the EU's current data protection regime is a 1995 Directive (95/46/EC), given effect in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998. The Directive referred to two objectives: the protection of the right to privacy, ...

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11 King's Bench Walk | Data Protection for the 21st Century: The EU Reform ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
020 7632 8500 DATA PROTECTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: THE EU REFORM PROPOSALS Robin Hopkins INTRODUCTION 1. This is the second of two papers summarising the impact of the draft “General Data Protection Regulation” proposed by the European Commission on ...

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Norton Rose Group | DPA guidance on cloud computing
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
German data protection authorities are generally concerned over data protection law compliance in the cloud. Reliable interpretations and guidelines are still missing as to if and under which preconditions personal data might be stored and processed in ...

Radio IP Software Achieves 'Secured by RSA® Certified Partner' Status for its ...
SunHerald.com
Ryan Fournier, Senior Director, Product Management, Identity and Data Protection, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), adds, “End users today demand mobile productivity which means organizations must provide highly secure and convenient ...

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Commission seeks legal clarification on controversial anti-piracy treaty
EUobserver.com
... said he wants the court to “cut through a fog of uncertainty” by assessing whether ACTA was “incompatible - in any way - with freedom of expression and information or data protection and the right to property in case of intellectual property.

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Domestic Drones: Big Brother's Prying Eyes in the Sky
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
If we want to protect our privacy rights, the exercise of this power has to be subject to limits," writes ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer in The New York Times "Room for Debate" discussion about the use of drones domestically, and whether they ...

(September 2011 Front Matter) – Sales rise 97% at sportsdirect.com
InternetRetailing.net
Online retailer Lush is planning to launch a new community-focused website this autumn, replacing one that was taken down earlier this year after a data protection breach left up to 5000 of its customers exposed to hackers. The news follows a ruling by ...

Costa Concordia documentary: media issues surrounding investigations
International Law Office
Article 7 of the Code of Conduct on Personal Data Processing for Journalistic Purposes - which is annexed to the Data Protection Code - states that a minor's right to privacy "must always take precedence over both freedom of expression and freedom of ...

Imation debuts DataGuard backup appliances to provide SMBs with multiple ...
CTR
The DataGuard Model R4 and DataGuard Model T5R appliances utilize hard drives, removable RDX disk cartridges, replication and cloud storage to deliver enterprise-strength data protection at a price point that is affordable for SMBs.

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Radio IP Software Achieves 'Secured by RSA® Certified Partner' Status for its ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Ryan Fournier, Senior Director, Product Management, Identity and Data Protection, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), adds, “End users today demand mobile productivity which means organizations must provide highly secure and convenient ...

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ICO investigating Google over browser privacy claims
ClickZ
"We are aware of this issue and are continuing to make enquiries with Google to ensure that they comply with the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations," it said in a statement. ClickZ sister site V3 contacted ...

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Anti-piracy deal referred to European court
TheParliament.com
This will include freedom of expression, data protection and the right to property in case of intellectual property, he said. Supporters argue that the agreement will help tackle piracy and illegal file sharing online, but there have been public ...

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