The UK government's plan to ease regulations on unsolicited 'spam' email has today been met with angry reactions from privacy groups. No one seems to be taking responsibility on spam which allows companies to misbehave and even outsource their mass...
In the United States, medical and insurance companies are bracing for a key deadline involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which aims to protect the privacy of health records, among other things.
Legislation that's passed in the last two years - Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and California's Security Breach Information Act - is forcing companies to meet minimum levels of security for their...
That law, called the California Security Breach Information Act, and the federal Graham-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are intended to prod the industry to adopt better data-handling practices.
One the one hand, at least this shows Bluetooth - thought up by Ericsson and initially launched alongside IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba - is becoming ubiquitous. The European Union Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations law, due to take...
The controversial radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking tags will become ubiquitous in consumer goods but privacy issues, standards and cost need to be addressed first, according to a senior executive of UK supermarket chain Safeway.