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Data leaks highlight need for content security
Comment While these do not specifically require disclosure, not to do so would breach privacy, so the need to disclose is implicit as individuals must be informed if their privacy is likely to be compromised. [11 Dec 2008]
Privacy tsar to fine firms recklessly losing data
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will gain powers to fine companies that... [25 Nov 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News The ICO has been arguing for some time that its powers and resources are no longer adequate, and parliament responded by deciding the ICO should have the power to impose penalties for deliberate or reckless breaches of data.silicon.com's... [29 Oct 2008]
Data breach at Virgin prompts encryption order
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. According to the Information Commissioner's Office, the individuals' data went... [30 Sep 2008]
Data breach victims get the mushroom treatment
News IT services company Logica, which sponsored the research, said the true number of organisations suffering data breaches is probably far higher.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com... [25 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News The firm was contracted to run the JTrack system, a database used by the Home Office and the police to keep track of offenders.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the... [10 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News The NCC is petitioning the European Union to draft legal powers to compel businesses and banks to inform customers when they lose their personal data.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking... [01 Sep 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and... [27 Aug 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data breaches, first when MoJ supplier records were compromised in June 2007 and then when the names, addresses, birth dates and alleged offences relating to 3,648... [25 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The government launched its consultation on the Information Commissioner's Office... [17 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft... [15 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News Whitehall has neither the framework nor the leadership to properly protect the public's personal data, a review by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas and Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust has... [11 Jul 2008]
Privacy concerns over Google Street View
News Davies told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that Privacy International had been in touch with Google to request "full disclosure of the technology specifications for the promised face and number-plate blurring system". [09 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. A rethink of UK data protection laws is something that silicon.com has been calling on for the last... [03 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will investigate whether Colchester... [30 Jun 2008]
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