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Advocacy groups have asked federal officials to investigate last month's release of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants in Utah. The organizations asked regional Food Stamp and Medicaid program chiefs in a letter Friday to respond publicly to the privacy breach and ...

Google said Tuesday it would allow Germans to opt out of its disputed Street View navigation service ahead of its launch in the country this year but privacy watchdogs were still not happy. The move is part of an effort to placate German authorities, who have serious concerns about the service that allows users to view online panoramic still photos ...

South Korean police investigators raided Google's Seoul offices on Tuesday on suspicion the Internet search company was illegally gathering personal information for its street mapping service. Police official Ahn Chang-soo says a cybercrime unit is investigating Google Korea for possibly violating South Korean communications and privacy ...

South Korean police Tuesday searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service, an officer said. "We searched Google Korea as it is suspected of breaching the law on the protection of privacy in the course of collecting information needed for its Street View service," the officer involved ...

Google will introduce its "Street View" mapping feature for 20 of Germany's largest cities before the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday, launching a new debate over privacy in Germany. German officials have been one of the harshest critics of the "Street View ...

As cybercrimes launched against large and small organizations alike continue – all the while becoming more sophisticated and, now, sometimes focused on specific companies or government agencies, the need for information security pros to learn the latest best practices ...

It was not too long ago that failures on Wall Street and the soaring price of fuel appeared to spell impending doom for the U.S. automotive industry.
Sales plummeted, tens of thousands ...

It is imperative that a team approach be used to meet the security needs of state business, says Kris Rowley, CISO, state of Vermont.Not all security solutions involve the use of expensive technologies. A valuable ...

Two senators on Thursday introduced a national data breach notification bill that also would force businesses to create measures to protect sensitive information under their control, according to a news report.The legislation, introduced Thursday by Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., would ...

The head of Hong Kong's pioneering e-payment operator Octopus Holdings has resigned, the company said Thursday, after it admitted selling the personal data of two million customers to businesses. The ubiquitous Octopus card has brought cashless payments to many facets of Hong Kong life since its launch in 1997, and provided the model for smart cards used on public ...