Since the current Convention for the Protection of Individuals that addresses the matter of personal data protection and processing is dated from 1981, when the Internet was nowhere near what it has become today, the Council of Europe proposed a revised version.
The existing convention is employed by 43 countries a... |
5 December 2011
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A German data protection authority warns companies that they might be fined if they continue to use the Facebook 'Like' and 'Pages' features which, according to its findings, violate local and European data protection laws.The Data Protection Commissioner's Office (ULD) from the Northern Germ... |
23 August 2011
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Members of the Dutch Parliament have asked the country's security and justice minister to investigate whether the LinkedIn's new social ads feature violates data protection legislation.LinkedIn just rolled out a new system that uses people's names and pictures in ads displayed to others in their networ... |
12 August 2011
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Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws.Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK's managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compel... |
8 August 2011
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office has the National Health Service (NHS) in its crosshairs and threatens with higher penalties if health organizations continue to lose sensitive patient information.In a statement released today the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham characterized NHS' data pr... |
1 July 2011
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IAB Europe, the group representing the European advertising industry, warns that cookie re-spawning violates European legislation and calls for companies using behavioral advertising technologies to provide the same level of transparency that HTTP cookies do.Cookie re-spawning is the practice of using ulternative sto... |
7 October 2010
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The European Commission has filed a complaint against the United Kingdom with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failure to properly implement EU directives on privacy and data protection.The shortcomings in UK's legislation have been identified while investigating BT Group's testing of targeting adver... |
4 October 2010
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F-Secure has launched a new version of its Mobile Security solution, which adds support for the increasingly popular Android platform. In addition to anti-malware protection the program comes with data protection and anti-theft features.Smartphones are used for everything from writing emails to doing online banking ... |
7 July 2010
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One of many tech-notes posted by Apple in light of the iOS 4 launch details the particularities of Data Protection, one of many key additions inside the new operating system for iPhones and iPod touches. Data Protection is supported only by the iPhone 3GS, and the 32GB and 64GB versions of the iPod touch third-genera... |
22 June 2010
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What does it take to protect your files and folders? The Internet provides both complex methods as well as extremely simple ones to keep prying eyes away from your data. Some of the best solutions on the market lock the desired digital information in a vault, which encrypts the data with standard algorithms or just t... |
18 June 2009
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F-Secure announced that it would make available a new version of its F-Secure Mobile Security during this month for the fresh S60 5th Edition platform, the latest version based on S60 Symbian OS. F-Secure Mobile Security 5 is one of the first software solutions to come with support for the new touch user interface th... |
18 February 2009
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On January 28, Microsoft joined governmental organizations and companies in the private sector to raise awareness of privacy and data protection issues. In 2007, the Council of Europe and the European Commission selected January 28 as the Data Privacy Day, and the Redmond company was quick to jump aboard, an indicati... |
28 January 2009
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The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) has issued the final version of regulations that establish a standard for the protection of personal information stored in paper and electronic records by private businesses. Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, also signed an ... |
26 September 2008
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Google has announced on its official blog that, following the concerns expressed by privacy regulators in Europe and US, it will anonymize IPs in the server search logs after 9 months instead of 18. After being the first major search engine to clearly specify a retention time for IPs of 18 months, Google claims that ... |
9 September 2008
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