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Irish watchdog: Facebook privacy still falls short

...uses their data in conjunction with apps and advertising, Facebook's chief privacy officer for policy Erin Egan said in a blog post on Friday... Read more

14 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Facebook tells employers to lay off login demands

...CNET UK In a blog post on Friday, the company's chief privacy officer, Erin Egan, noted a "distressing" increase in reported demands for login... Read more

26 March, 2012 by David Meyer

EU and US sign draft passenger data pact

...audit purposes, and be subject to independent oversight by the US chief privacy officer, the DHS Office of Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office, and... Read more

18 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Forrester Report: Managing the Security and Risk Challenges of Personal Devices in the Workplace

Forrester Report: Managing the Security and Risk Challenges of Personal Devices in the Workplace

...and security requirements, security professionals must work with a general counsel, chief privacy officer, and an IT ops lead to develop a robust mobile policy... Read more

1 April, 2011

Bush security drive could include privacy czar

...scheduled to vote this week on a plan to add a chief privacy officer to the planned agency. A draft of the legislation seen by... Read more

11 July, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Microsoft's privacy officer resigns

Off to 'explore new challenges' Microsoft has announced that its corporate privacy officer, Richard Purcell, has resigned and that the company will be moving... Read more

21 January, 2003 by Robert Lemos

Facebook attacks gov't web-monitoring plans

...services should monitor the web communications of all UK citizens. Facebook chief privacy officer and head of global public policy Chris Kelly told ZDNet UK... Read more

24 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

eBay, Yahoo among most trusted for privacy

...other companies and affiliates; has a data-retention policy; has a chief privacy officer; whether they disclose a user's email during password reset; and... Read more

17 September, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Gov't outlines Facebook monitoring plans

...as webmail providers and social networks such as Facebook. Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, told ZDNet UK in March that such plans were... Read more

27 April, 2009 by David Meyer and Tom Espiner

Gov't agencies fall short on data accuracy

...that any government department running a large database should appoint a chief privacy officer to be held accountable for personal information. It also said every... Read more

22 January, 2009 by David Meyer

Financial firms unsure where personal data is held

...according to the report's authors, would be to employ a chief privacy officer, a measure adopted by 28 percent of respondents to the survey... Read more

13 January, 2009 by David Meyer

ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations

...Dorothy Attwood, AT&T Services' vice president of public policy and chief privacy officer Read more

26 September, 2008 by Dawn Kawamoto

Google rebuts privacy claims

...the Australian Privacy Commissioner's Privacy Awareness Week awards, Microsoft's chief privacy officer Peter Cullen last week said that while Microsoft tackled privacy issues... Read more

1 September, 2008 by Liam Tung

Acxiom authentication process gets personal

...their customers, specifically their needs and wants". Jennifer Barrett, Acxiom's chief privacy officer, told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com, that... Read more

29 May, 2008 by Robert Vamosi

US gov't: Treat personal data 'like toxic waste'

...then be reconstituted at need and minimise data collection. Hugo Teufel, chief privacy officer for the US Department of Homeland Security, also speaking at the... Read more

10 April, 2008 by Tom Espiner

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