Topic: United States
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 ...
Northern California-based Sutter Health is the second major health care organization to fall victim to a major breach of unencrypted data.A desktop computer stolen from a Northern California health care system contained the personal information of roughly 4.2 million patients, the organization ...
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 ...
The trial of an ex-CIA officer accused of disclosing confidential information of a secret operation against Iran to a US journalist has been postponed after the government Friday removed two witnesses in the case.A US docket entry on the case of Jeffrey ...
The work being done by Kathleen Styles at the U.S. Department of Education is emblematic of a growing surge of privacy-led initiatives within the public and private sector. But many other firms are still falling short.Kathleen Styles is heading up a U.S. ...
A roundup of cybercriminal activity across the globe.Idaho —The state attorney general issued a consumer alert warning of widespread phishing scams targeting residents. Multiple individuals reported receiving phone calls and text messages claiming to come from their banks. The text falsely claimed ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook faces regulatory scrutiny in Ireland, site of its European headquarters, over its handling of personal information, the Financial Times reported on Friday.The newspaper said the Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook's activities ...
The Advanced Cyber Security Center will partner businesses and research universities to share threat information and develop more effective defense strategies.A collaboration among information security leaders in government, industry and academia has launched in Massachusetts with the goal of developing new data ...
(Reuters) - New technologies are flooding into the healthcare world, but the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients from data breaches, according to a report published on Thursday.A vast majority of hospitals, doctors, pharmacies and insurers are eager to adapt ...
(Reuters) - A proposed update of the U.S. online privacy rule for children would revise definitions of personal information and beef up parental consent mechanisms to reflect technological changes.The Federal Trade Commission plan would modify its Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that ...
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