A revised EC data protection act, which is expected to take effect in October, will impose tighter regulations on the processing of personal information. The Act is an implementation of the EC Data Protection Directive.
Make sure you are using SSL (secure socket layer) and VPN authenticated sessions that protect the administrator password when doing this. Install a personal firewall on all systems using WiFi (The wireless protocol).
The most well-known application of short encryption is the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which is commonly used to protect internet transmissions. But UK encryption specialist nCipher has now warned companies that the short key used in an...
The EU's recently appointed data-protection controller, Peter Hustinx, says that the right to privacy is not absolute - but that it deserves respect. Hustinx, who took on the mantle of data guardian for the EU in January, cut his teeth with the...
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has put a stop to one businessman's data protection antics, after he misled customers into signing up with him by pretending to be from a government body. Peter Hardy sent out mailings from the 'Data Protection...
The long arm of the law has caught up with four scammers who have been sentenced to jail this week for sending out fake data protection notices demanding businesses pay up or risk falling foul of the Data Protection Act (DPA).