Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom: “Google must turn over records of everyone who has watched YouTube videos to Viacom, which is suing the internet giant for copyright infringement. A rights…
Sign the Petition to Stop ISP’s from breaching customers privacy via advertising technologies.: “Sign a petition We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop ISP’s from breaching customers privacy via advertising technologies. “ On…
A Company Computer and Questions About E-Mail Privacy: “A lawsuit involves an unsettled area of the law, where changes in technology create tension between expectations of personal privacy and companies’ rights to monitor equipment. (Via…
Data security in Government: a briefing on the Poynter report: “Four reports were published yesterday that relate to the security of Government information systems. The recommendations in one of them, the Poynter report, may be…
Data security in Government: a briefing on Sir Gus O’Donnell’s report: “Sir Gus O’Donnell wrote one of the four reports published yesterday on the security of Government information systems. The report will have a major…
Laptop Searches in Airports Draw Fire at Senate Hearing: “Advocacy groups and legal experts told Congress that it was unreasonable for federal officials to search the laptops of United States citizens when they re-enter the…
Government lays plans to avoid future data security blunders: “The loss last year of 25 million records by HM Revenue and Customs was the result of ‘woefully inadequate’ processes for data handling, not individual employees,…
Culture of insecurity blamed for HMRC data loss: “ Official reports lambast UK.gov over data breaches A culture of insecurity rather than mistakes by any single official has been blamed for the HMRC data loss…
HMRC culture ’caused discs loss’: “The loss of 25 million child benefit records can not be blamed on a single government official, a report is expected to say.” (Via BBC News.)
EU – EDPS Opinion on safer Internet for children: “(RAPID) The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has adopted an Opinion on the proposed multiannual Community programme on protecting children using the Internet and other communication…