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Personal data exposed via eBay storage
News The company said most contained some kind of confidential or personal data including phone numbers, email addresses, letters and even temporary files created by Internet browsers which contained passwords for online banking.
[September 14, 2005, 13:15]
Personal Data Vault
Downloads Personal Data Vault (PDV) acts as a safe-deposit box for your confidential documents. The Personal Data Vault shreds deleted files to Dept of Defense standards to ensure that they are destroyed beyond recovery.
[September 21, 2004, 18:52]
Personal Server takes your data with you
News Instead, says Want, it makes sense to carry your data around in a self-contained package and use whatever display and input devices are available wherever you find yourself. Other applications he suggested: streaming your collection of audio or...
[September 16, 2003, 10:25]
Bosses sign pledge to protect personal data
News Those signing have pledged to "go further than just the letter of the law" in handling personal data, minimise the range and duration of data retention, train staff in its handling and treat its misuse as a disciplinary matter.
[January 30, 2009, 7:45]
EU creates loophole for personal data transfers
News Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) will be able to receive personal data from businesses within EU member states under a standard contractual clause newly adopted by the European Commission.
[January 24, 2002, 16:12]
US gov't: Treat personal data 'like toxic waste'
News There have been a series of high-profile data losses by civil servants in the US and the UK in the past year, including the loss of 25 million personal details by HM Revenue & Customs in the UK last autumn.
[April 10, 2008, 12:02]
European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News The European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee approved a report by the radical MEP Marco Cappato on Wednesday, in favour of a strict regulation of law enforcement authorities' access to personal data in the electronic communications sector.
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
Financial firms unsure where personal data is held
News Most financial-services organisations lack a clear idea of where their employees' and customers' personal data is held, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey has revealed. According to the survey, 54 percent of those surveyed in financial services...
[January 13, 2009, 16:28]
Office XP hole compromises personal data
News This encrypts data sent over the Internet, but not the document," Laver clarified. Companies using Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer version 5 have been warned that documents containing personal information could be sent to Microsoft along...
[October 18, 2001, 17:07]
HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications
White Papers This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organization and distributed data sharing.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Scottish gov't plans personal data cull
News They are aimed at raising confidence in the management of personal data, amid fears that a growing dependence on centralised databases has created substantial risks to privacy. In addition, personal and transactional data should be stored...
[September 3, 2009, 16:29]
Online pollster reveals personal data
News A spokesman for the UK's Information Commissioner said that this "almost certainly" contravenes the Data Protection Act, but described it as an "unintentional cock-up" rather than a serious or deliberate breach of the legislation.
[August 27, 2002, 10:12]
Inspect Documents for Hidden Data and Personal Information
White Papers Several types of hidden data and personal information can be saved in a Word document. Hidden information can include the data that Office Word 2007 adds to a document to enable the user to collaborate on writing and editing it with other people.
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Ministry of Justice loses four CDs of personal data
News The Ministry of Justice has lost four CDs containing personal data. Ministers and the information commissioner were notified immediately [when] it was recognised that personal data had been lost. The government department responsible for UK courts...
[January 23, 2008, 12:33]
Stealth searches scan personal data
Talkback Are there any American who can write 21st century version of "1984"? Actually, it's much easier than what George Orwell did, because what the author needs to do is only to describe the country as it is.
[May 27, 2004, 15:57]
Insurance site exposes personal data
News Thanks to an apparent software glitch, their personal information was left on the company's Web site for all the world to see. MSNBC.com was alerted to the problem late on Tuesday by a prospective SelectQuote customer, who was outraged that other...
[March 23, 2000, 8:54]
Egg admits another personal data blunder
News But according to a spokesman from the Association for Payment of Credit Services (APCS) banks are under no obligation to secure credit card numbers or personal details. What mesures do you think banks should take to protect customer's personal...
[December 1, 1999, 16:55]
Office XP hole compromises personal data
Talkback not just office, even windows XP has those.just look at the services (administrative tools) included that is running in the background.some of them are security risks, that needs to be disabled.thats the same reason the w32.worm (can't remember...
[November 17, 2003, 14:38]
British ISPs forced to reveal customers' personal data
Talkback What's more important, £300 for the company or the data protection act?
[October 15, 2004, 13:38]
British ISPs forced to reveal customers' personal data
Talkback This is great, it will help to drive the move towards fully anonymous P2P networks where file fragments are shuttled around in such a way that it's near impossible to tell who has which files. Then the RIAA, BPI etc.will be completely stuffed as...
[October 18, 2004, 12:01]
