Topic: United States
Breaking into information security as a career can be difficult, but there are several ways to ease the transition and make yourself more attractive to potential employers.My interest in information security began when my dad gave me The Cuckoos Egg, a book ...
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 ...
Cheered on by civil liberties advocates and consumer groups, a US lawmaker introduced legislation Friday to help safeguard Internet users' privacy and rein in dissemination of personal financial data."These two bills send a clear message -- privacy over profit," Democratic Representative Jackie ...
The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over the collection of private wireless data by its Street View mapping cars and not take the Internet giant to court."This is a good result for the people of ...
SC Magazine's annual data breach survey shows that budgets will remain stagnant as threats continue to evolve.This year's data breach survey shows that budgets will remain stagnant as threats continue to evolve. Illena Armstrong reports.While there are some who think 2011 will ...
Google agrees to delete personal data collected in UK street view programBritain's information security watchdog says that Google Inc. has agreed to delete the personal data collected by the company's Street View cars.The Information Commissioner said Friday that the Mountainview, California-based company ...
"Last month, Google disclosed that its Street View cars collected passwords, emails and other personal information wirelessly from unsuspecting people across the country," said Michele Ellison, Enforcement Bureau Chief of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)."In light of their public disclosure, we can ...
The newspaper said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began a probe earlier this year into whether the Internet giant broke federal laws when its street-mapping service harvested consumers' personal information.The FCC was asked in May by the Electronic Privacy Information Center to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet companies need to be more accountable for the mass of personal data collected from users to guard against cybercrime, industry executives said on Tuesday."Information is the currency of growth, but it's also increasingly become the currency of crime," ...
While the percentage of people actively sharing their location may still be pretty small, it feels like we're zooming toward an event horizon, beyond which everyone will be opting in - and checking in - to location services like Foursquare, Places, and ...
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