The UK data protection registrar, Elizabeth France, has begged companies to stop panicking about Europe's new data protection laws. The 1998 Data Protection Act, which promises tighter controls on personal data, is currently awaiting secondary...
US online privacy campaigner, Truste, is to expand its campaign for self-regulated data protection to Europe. Until now, battles over data protection have been strictly territorial - with the EU advocating strict legislation, while the US favoured...
The latest round of talks between the EU and the US over data protection regulations ended yesterday without agreement. The two sides are at loggerheads, with the EU insisting that the US comply with European data protection law, and the US...
NAS technology centres on a hard-disk storage device that sits on a local area network, and often is used by smaller companies or work groups within large organisations. NAS made up 11 per cent of the $3.2bn spent on external disk storage systems...
It's not just a matter of deleting information or reformatting the hard disk.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the reporting of...
Bamford continued: "How you can have a system which allows you to copy a whole database onto a disk is of concern. Security lapses like we just found out about are very worrying, especially as we've had data-protection laws on our statute books for...