But Caspar Bowden, director of privacy lobby group Foundation for Information Policy Research, said the government needs to seriously review the laws currently in place to protect online privacy. The case has thrown serious doubt over the systems...
About 28,000 publicly accessible hotspots exist around the world today, according to research firm Allied Business Intelligence. Unlike the file-swapping market, which in Napster's wake has been populated mostly by small companies that exist on the...
The European Union Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations law, due to take effect from 11 December is generally interpreted to cover communication over networks. On the plus side, it is easy for users to protect themselves against the...
In other words, state and federal laws regulating technology often invoke an even more powerful rule: the law of unintended consequences. But as they say elsewhere, you can't suspend the laws of physics.
For some the consequences of an IT security lapse are more severe than others, especially those that hold sensitive customer information that is increasingly subject to privacy laws and other regulations.
The assessment will form the basis of a company's strategy and plan for investing in technology - for example, in automated controls for managing information produced within an organisation to achieve goals of privacy and operational transparency...