A leading cyber privacy campaigner is warning that corporations are incompetent when it comes protecting their customers' personal data. Simon Davies of Privacy International was responding to news revealed at the end of last week that AT&T...
Dubbed Earthstation 5, the new file-swapping network is openly flouting international copyright norms at a time when many older peer-to-peer companies are trying to establish themselves as legitimate technology companies.
In selecting what data would be relevant, the Council has said it had followed the work carried out by International Civil Aviation Organisation, explaining that it had "played a role in pioneering the definition of international norms on the...
Health minister Lord Warner has published a 'care record guarantee' that covers patients' access to their own records, controls over who else can access the information and options for patients who want to limit access further or opt-out altogether.
Any amount of time that data is stored on an outside server is too long for institutions that must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which provide strict...
Because of this - and because the burden of regulation is likely to increase with new legislation potentially covering e-disclosure rules in the EU and a strengthening of privacy rules at a federal level in the US - companies need to view their...