Inland Revenue chairman, Nick Montagu, has celebrated the 200th anniversary of income tax by announcing an electronic revolution in the way Britain files its tax returns. Montagu outlined a series of measures to streamline tax filing, from call...
Agilent, a technology company with interests in communications, electronics and life sciences was spun out of HP in 1999. It has signed up to the safe harbor accord as part of its wider policy to protect the privacy of its customers.
Shopping portal http://www.ukshops.co.uk - which bills itself as a virtual city featuring many well-known high street names - unwittingly exposed details including postal address, phone number, gender and age group of more than 1,700 individuals.
These laws are designed to strike a fair balance between the interests of employers to run their businesses efficiently, and the need to protect the privacy of workers. Excessive monitoring is not always in the interests of business.
Barclaycard's Taylor believes consumers who have previously resisted the convenience of online shopping will be encouraged by the added security - and that is certainly in his company's and MasterCard's best interests.
People vote with their feet and move their bank accounts of habits for shopping," he said. A number of countries - and US states - have put in place legislation aimed at making organisations protect their customers' data more carefully.