Public info office throws out data reuse complaint
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Zero-Now loses fight for Milton Keynes data A company has lost its fight to gain access to data about public services in Milton Keynes for use on its website.â¦
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A major mobile phone service provider and the UK's largest catalog-shopping service have both been criticized by that government's Information Commissioner's Office for privacy violations affecting employees and consumers. Critics charge that the ICO is all hat and very few cattle.
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Repent of your public networks, says web guru
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A seamy practice with a slightly annoying name is separating unwary consumers from their banking information, according to a bulletin released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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The state of California has warned residents that their personal data may have been stolen from computers at the University of California, Berkeley, after a database used by researchers there was compromised by hackers.
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Bureau was target of an attempt to gain access to employees' user account information for its computer network.
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A report by the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs criticized an IT specialist and the directors of one of the agency's medical centers in connection with the loss or theft of a hard drive containing data about more than 1.5 million people.
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The mutual fund information provider receives a Wells Notice over incorrect data.
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Data on more than 100 million U.S. consumers has been compromised in the past two years, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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Â· Stolen files not encrypted, Browne tells CommonsÂ· Whitehall issues staff ban on movement of data
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Claiming national security concerns, and backed by Justice Department special counsel, the phone provider argues in federal court that a lawsuit against it for ponying up millions of phone records for a secret government data-mining program should be dismissed. Ryan Singel reports from the courthouse.
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A year after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed a huge data breach involving the theft of personal information on 26.5 million vets and active-duty military personnel, federal agencies have moved to prevent such a breach from happening again. Here are five steps taken along the way.
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Plagued by regular breaches in the security of personal data, federal agencies were ordered Tuesday to eliminate the unnecessary collection and use of Social Security numbers by early 2009
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Weeks after the government admitted that it had lost computer discs containing the names and bank account details of 25 million people, exposing nearly half the population to possible fraud and identity theft, the U.K. said a contractor has lost personal data on 3 million learner drivers.
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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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It's the fifth time regulators have taken action against a company for failing to protect consumer data -- and the second time the same California coder blew the whistle.
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Europe's top data protection official criticized plans for air passenger records like those gathered by U.S. authorities.