Stories about: Federal Data

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    Facebook data collection under fire in Germany again 23/08/2011 22:14:20

    A German privacy protection authority is calling on organizations there to close their Facebook fan pages and remove the social networking site's "Like" button from their websites, arguing that Facebook harvests data in violation of German and European Union law.
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    Swiss court to issue ruling on Google Street View 26/02/2011 02:56:00

    A Swiss court is considering a request from the country's data protection commissioner that Google should manually blur people's faces in its Street View imagery application rather than use automated technology.
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    Trend Micro purchase boosts data protection 30/11/2010 04:05:00

    Trend Micro announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor -- a company that specializes in endpoint data protection. The move strengthens Trend Micro's data protection capabilities and positions it to address the growing concern of securing data on mobile devices that are easily lost or stolen.
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    German regulators welcome street panorama privacy law draft 28/06/2010 21:26:00

    German privacy regulators have welcomed a proposal to extend laws protecting Germans' right to privacy to cover use of their own image and that of their homes in online street panoramas, the Hamburg privacy regulator said Monday.
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    Industry giants to weigh in on US privacy laws 02/02/2009 07:25:00

    A group of U.S. companies, led by technology giants Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and eBay, is set to outline recommendations for new federal data-privacy legislation that could make life easier for consumers and lead to a standard federal breach-notification law.
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    Twitter, search robots get welcomes from Obama White House 22/01/2009 12:35:00

    President Barack Obama's stated plan to create a "Google for government" began Tuesday with a WhiteHouse.gov makeover that was announced via a blog entry on the redesigned Web site and a Twitter post.
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    More laws, collaboration required for online safety 06/06/2008 09:31:44

    Washington state's attorney general is only half joking when he suggests that perhaps sites like Facebook and MySpace should require members to use a credit card to sign up for access as a way to prove their identity.
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    Here's why .pdf spam went pffft 10/09/2007 12:17:15

    It's no secret that spammers have informal communications channels and freely share tricks of the trade on the Internet. But what happened in August is enough to make you suspect they have an organized trade union -- or even a government -- that allows what would otherwise be a scattered collection of freelance vermin to operate in surprising unison.
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    TECHED: MS users don't care about antitrust case 07/06/2000 16:23:41

    Users gathered here for Microsoft's TechEd conference seem uninterested in the company's legal woes.
 
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