Regulator urges caution on data sharing
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Tells gov: think before you act The Information Commissioner has published some advice for government bodies that want to share information but think data protection laws prevent them from doing so.â¦
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Two bills take different approaches toward the tricky concept of how to regulate what happens if a company has a data leak.
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Bracknell Forest head lobbies for data sharing incentive The leader of Bracknell Forest BC has suggested people who allow their data to be sold to marketing firms could receive council tax cuts.â¦
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Shouldn't be added as an afterthought Government needs to make privacy and data protection principles a core component of its IT specifications, according to the assistant information commissioner.â¦
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A DIRECTOR of technology for security outfit RSA Security has warned online customers are not &quot;authenticated enough&quot; and there needs to be moves towards toward a mandated identity policy.
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Software on the Seine, anyone? Backup in Budapest? VTL from Vienna? And why not. Europeans have far more experience when it comes to dealing with data regulatory issues than we do.
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European data protection officials have written to Google warning that the search giant may be in breach of E.U. privacy because of the way it retains data on individual searches.
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With the EU crafting new laws governing how data collectors such as Google protect users' personal data, lawmakers there are clashing with US business leaders over how far that protection can and should extend.
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Europe&#39;s top data protection official, European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx, criticized plans to create a European equivalent of the PNR (passenger name records) gathered by U.S. authorities, questioning the plan&#39;s necessity and proportionality.
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Controls are needed to ensure genetic information for research is not used by outside parties, warn experts.
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After a spate of disputes between the U.S. and the European Union over privacy safeguards, the U.K.'s information commissioner is calling for international harmonization of data-protection rules.
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Government official warns of the danger of falling behind other countries in broadband speeds.
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In a letter issued yesterday to US Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman took issue with the findings of an FTC staff report issued last July, suggesting that P2P file-sharing use may only be as dangerous as any other form of Internet activity.
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Action should be taken over consumers' concerns about broadband connection speeds, a watchdog says.
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Refusal to hand over secret payments evidence could endanger sharing of intelligence.
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Politicos just blowing smoke Opinion Data protection, privacy and information law have never been so high profile as in recent months. Following the loss of 25 million people's personal details by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), there has been what seems like a tide of gaffe after slip-up, all resulting in private personal details spilling out into the public domain.â¦
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Dear Sir, you personal data has been made public... The European Commission has published proposals for a law change that would force telecoms firms to notify regulators and customers of all breaches of their data security.â¦