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Facebook has to better explain to users what happens to their personal data and give them more control, the data commissioner in Ireland, home to the website's international headquarters, said Wednesday.

Facebook must work towards "simpler explanations of its privacy policies (and) ... easier accessibility and prominence of these policies," the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said.

It called on ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook agreed on Wednesday to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America, after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency.

The probe by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) at the U.S. group's international headquarters in Dublin said users were at risk of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Personal information about Los Angeles police commanders has been posted on the Internet, prompting an investigation into where it was obtained, an LAPD spokesman said on Wednesday.

The disclosure comes during a recent rise in attempts to hack into the department's website, Lieutenant Andrew Neiman said, but the recently posted details did not appear to have ...

SC's 2011 influential IT security thinkers

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook will be required to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of a settlement of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.

The settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will also subject the company, which is reported to preparing a $10 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook will be required to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of a settlement of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.

The settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will also subject the company, which is reported to preparing a $10 ...

South Korea's top games developer vowed Monday to tighten security after the personal information of 13 million users of its popular online game was leaked.

Nexon Korea apologised for the hacking last week, which revealed data including user IDs, names, passwords and residential registration numbers, on the subscribers to its game MapleStory.

The game has a global user base ...

A desktop computer stolen from a Northern California health care system contained the personal information of roughly 4.2 million patients, the organization revealed Wednesday.

Sutter Health, a nonprofit network of doctors and hospitals serving 100 communities, said ...

Austrian law student Max Schrems may be just one of about 800 million Facebook users, but that hasn't stopped him tackling the US giant behind the social networking website over its privacy policy.

The 24-year-old wasn't sure what to expect when he requested Facebook provide him with a record of the personal data it holds on him, but ...

Throughout the day, SC Magazine will be announcing the finalists from each of its 32 award categories. Last but certainly not least are the Professional categories.

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