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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook has agreed to improve its privacy policy for hundreds of millions of users after a three-month investigation by Irish authorities at the U.S. group's international headquarters in Dublin.Facebook's Ireland office has responsibility for handing all of its users ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said they had begun investigating Samsung Card over the alleged leakage of personal information on its customers.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said in a statement on Thursday that a Samsung Card employee was suspected of leaking ...
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Connecticut's Attorney General is deeply 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 ...
(Reuters) - Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, according to Symantec Corp's official web blog.Third-parties would have had access to personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat, ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The personal records of some 3.5 million Texans were inadvertently exposed after they were placed on a state computer server that was accessible to the public for about a year, state officials said on Monday.State Comptroller Susan Combs ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's financial watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into the leak of personal information from South Korea's Hyundai Capital, the consumer finance unit of Hyundai Motor Group, a Financial Supervisory Service official said.Hyundai Capital said personal information on ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection regulator has fined Google 100,000 euros for collecting private data from wireless networks when its camera-equipped cars gathered footage for its on-line map service Street View.The Commission nationale de l'information et des libertes (CNIL) told Google ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is backing legislation to protect the personal data of Internet users, toughening its stance from a call last year for voluntary codes of conduct for data companies and advertisers."The administration is now at the point of ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Insurer Health Net Inc on Monday said it is investigating the disappearance of several server drives from its data center operations that contain the personal information of members and employees.Health Net said it was notified by IBM Corp, the ...