Topic: Information Privacy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of consumer and privacy groups is pressing the Senate for stronger legislation to ensure that consumers' private information is kept safe.In particular, the groups, which include the American Civil Liberties Union, Consumer Action and U.S. PIRG, argued ...
Gannett Government Media is the latest high-profile company to sustain a breach, this one exposing the personal information of U.S. military personnel.Gannett Government Media – publisher of the Army Times, Defense News, Federal Times and a number of other government news websites ...
Former justice secretary Jack Straw has called for tighter rules on car insurance companies who sell on customers' details to personal injury lawyers without their permission.The Labour MP for Blackburn said the practice was a 'racket' which pushed up insurance premiums as ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google Inc has been ordered by city police to suspend its "Street View" service in the Indian IT hub of Bangalore, the company said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to its global mapping project that has been ...
Hong Kong's privacy watchdog on Monday scolded four banks for releasing customers' personal data to third parties, accusing three of them of selling the information.The four banks -- Citibank, ICBC, Fubon Bank and Wing Hang Bank -- had all released customers' personal ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Connecticut's Attorney General is concerned over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to identify users and has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss ways to alleviate those concerns.Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to ...
US senators introduced bills on Wednesday aimed at protecting the privacy of mobile phone users and safeguarding personal information of consumers stored online.The Location Privacy Protection Act would require companies like Apple and Google and applications developers to obtain express consent from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congresswoman may strengthen a data breach bill to quell concerns it would do too little to force companies to alert customers of data breaches promptly.The draft version of the bill from Rep. Mary Bono Mack requires companies that ...
By embedding privacy controls into legacy systems, organizations can minimize the risk of data loss and achieve greater levels of protection, Ann Cavoukian, information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, said Tuesday at SC Congress Canada in Toronto.By embedding privacy controls into legacy ...
Citibank, the third largest bank in the U.S., this week disclosed that hackers broke into its systems and gained access to the personal information of hundreds of thousands of customers.Citibank, the nation's third largest bank, this week disclosed that hackers broke into ...
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