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Data breach law: Companies facing fines of five per cent of turnover

...up to five per cent of their global turnover under proposed EU data privacy laws. EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding said next month she will... Read more

6 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Europe seeks new data privacy deal with US

The EC has proposed giving people the right to access and correct personal data held by the US as part of anti-terrorist and criminal investigations Read more

28 May, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Apple fixes iOS 4 location data caching 'bug'

iOS 4.3.3 update cuts stored location data down to size... Read more

5 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Robert Vamosi: Gadgets degrade our common sense

Interview: Author of When Gadgets Betray Us discusses our dangerous love affair with tech... Read more

5 May, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Anonymity loophole puts UK data at risk

DPA loophole 'has been a problem for years'... Read more

23 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Home Office targets data storage reforms by 2015

The department has said in its business plan that it will implement proposals to end the storage of people's internet records without good cause within five years Read more

10 November, 2010 by Kable

US access to EU Swift bank data agreed

After EU privacy laws denied American security services access to European bank information, the parties have signed the Swift agreement to turn the taps back on Read more

29 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
A Systematic Mapping Study on Patient <endeca_term>Data Privacy</endeca_term> and Security for Software System Development

A Systematic Mapping Study on Patient Data Privacy and Security for Software System Development

The exchange of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has increased threats to patient data privacy and security. The software systems developed for healthcare sector are required... Read more

19 October, 2011
Financial Services, Regulation and the Achilles Heel of Email

Financial Services, Regulation and the Achilles Heel of Email

Ensuring data privacy in compliance with government regulations and consumer protection laws presents a... Read more

25 April, 2012
Educational Testing Service (ETS) Puts Oracle Advanced Security to the Test

Educational Testing Service (ETS) Puts Oracle Advanced Security to the Test

...this podcast, the speaker explains about recognizing the importance of protecting customer data privacy and integrity. The speaker describes the implemented a broad program to... Read more

1 January, 2012
Enhance <endeca_term>Data Privacy</endeca_term> in Service Compositions Through a Privacy Proxy

Enhance Data Privacy in Service Compositions Through a Privacy Proxy

...between nested Web services, the question how to preserve a user's data privacy becomes a challenging issue. In this paper, the authors aim to... Read more

23 September, 2011
Testing Software in Age of <endeca_term>Data Privacy</endeca_term>: A Balancing Act

Testing Software in Age of Data Privacy: A Balancing Act

...their databases should also be made available to test engineers. However, different data privacy laws prevent organizations from sharing this data with test centers because... Read more

9 September, 2011
Fuzzy Methods for Database Protection

Fuzzy Methods for Database Protection

Data privacy has become an important topic of research. Ubiquitous databases and the... Read more

1 July, 2011
Key Scheduling Scheme for Secured Routing in Wireless Adhoc Network

Key Scheduling Scheme for Secured Routing in Wireless Adhoc Network

...technique is suggested for adhoc network fall short of the objective of data privacy, data integrity, and authentication. Various security standards such as IEEE 802... Read more

1 May, 2011
Enforcing <endeca_term>Data Privacy</endeca_term> and User Privacy over Outsourced Database Service

Enforcing Data Privacy and User Privacy over Outsourced Database Service

...protection measures. In this paper, the authors propose a solution to enforce data privacy and user privacy over outsourced database services Read more

1 March, 2011

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