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Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT in a trial on its customers - says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of Phorm's technologies constituted unlawful...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Call to increase online data protection for teens

News But the CDD and others want the FTC to go further by expanding the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa) to cover teens between 13 and 18 years old. The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13...

Tags: myspace, facebook

[10 Apr 2008]

Vendors hype up compliance fears

Comment What he's taken to doing now is getting an undertaking from individuals and organisations that have breached the Data Protection Act, and naming and shaming them in press releases," she says. Data Protection Act

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, data protection, compliance

[08 Apr 2008]

Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees

News In a document submitted to government in January this year, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for the Data Protection Act (DPA) to be amended to include a penalty for data controllers "knowingly or recklessly failing to comply with...

Tags: education, breach, data

[03 Apr 2008]

Data Protection Commissioner Inspection: Are You Ready?

whitepaper Neither is the Data Protection act which outlines the requirements and in effect the responsibilities. The powers of the Data protection commissioner and more to the point the likelihood of inspection have however increased.

Tags: data recovery - security

[27 Mar 2008]

Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?

Comment Many will be aware now that the seventh principle of the Data Protection Act requires businesses to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to guard against accidental data loss. Compliance with the new Companies Act and the Data...

Tags: data protection, companies act, encryption, security

[27 Mar 2008]

Newcastle Building Society Protects Customer Data With Centralized Security and Retention Management

whitepaper The challenge was to use internationally recognized industry standards to encrypt documents and ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act and avoid interference with normal workflows, both internally and within partner organizations, while...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[24 Mar 2008]

Brits get more data security savvy

News The ICO advises concerned consumers to refer to the Data Protection Act which, among other things, states organisations should always say what they plan to do with information and always keep it up to date.

Tags: ico, security, information, data protection act

[19 Mar 2008]

Police gets to grips with body cameras

Case Study The system also generates reports, has a quick search function and helps the force comply with the Data Protection Act. It also allows us to manage the recorded data over a long period of time. Inspector David Edge, who is coordinating the camera...

Tags: police, compliance, management, cameras

[12 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Lords above!

Comment I don't want it to take another data breach - followed by identity thieves exploiting that lost data to rip off the unlucky public - before the government decides to act. Their other suggestions included increasing resources for the police to deal...

Tags: full disclosure, data, security, house of lords

[27 Feb 2008]

Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach

News And silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has been calling for a rethink of the UK's data protection laws to make it clearer to companies how they should act when faced with a data breach. Costs for financial services firms were higher, which the...

Tags: full disclosure, law, data breach, legislation

[25 Feb 2008]

Laptop theft breaks data protection law

News Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has been found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - but has escaped without any punishment. The financial advisor company suffered the theft of an...

Tags: dpa, breach, customer data, ico

[21 Feb 2008]

Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss

News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign recently made a breakthrough when the...

Tags: full disclosure, criminal, punishment, poll

[14 Feb 2008]

Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One

News The personal data is encrypted immediately and is destroyed within 24 hours of use in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act. Biometric data is already in use for border control purposes at other airports in the UK, including Gatwick and...

Tags: biometrics, airport, heathrow, international

[08 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Another blow to identity fraudsters

Comment Seven months after we launched our Full Disclosure campaign calling for a rethink of legislation in this area, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now asking that knowingly or recklessly breaching the Data Protection Act should be made...

Tags: full disclosure, data protection, identity fraud, id cards

[06 Feb 2008]

silicon.com victory in Full Disclosure data campaign

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is asking that "knowingly or recklessly" breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA) could be made a criminal offence, as part of a series of amendments to the act.

Tags: data loss, richard thomas, ico, campaign

[31 Jan 2008]

ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence

News In a document submitted to government, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for the Data Protection Act (DPA) to be amended to include a penalty for data controllers "knowingly or recklessly failing to comply with the principles" of the...

Tags: data, dpa, ico, hmrc

[31 Jan 2008]

Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details

News The ICO found that M&S breached the Data Protection Act by not taking appropriate measures to ensure the security of its data by making sure the laptop data was encrypted. Mick Gorrill, assistant commissioner at the ICO, added in a statement: "It...

Tags: ico, data loss, laptop theft, marks and spencer

[25 Jan 2008]

MoD admits to more laptop thefts

News Fox said: "This seems like a systemic failure, not a single act of incompetence. The Ministry of Defence has had two further laptops stolen, admitted Defence Secretary Des Browne.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for...

Tags: mod, investigation, defence, data loss

[22 Jan 2008]

Streamlining Data Protection With Symantec Supports Medical Center in Providing 21st Century Healthcare

whitepaper To ensure compliance with federal and state regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and to protect vital patient records, the Luther Midelfort IT team uses a data protection solution from Symantec.

Tags: back-up

[17 Jan 2008]

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