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UK companies: Leaking like a sieve?

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found. The majority of UK businesses, 79 per cent, are losing data at...

Tags: data breach, security, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

News It marks a major milestone in silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign calling for legislation to make companies or authorities that lose personal data accountable.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

600 HMRC workers caught snooping

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined...

Tags: data loss, hmrc

[01 May 2008]

House of Lords backs data loss law change

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The move towards outlawing the reckless loss of data follows silicon.com's campaign for full disclosure.

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[28 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned the banking industry to shape up their attitudes to securing sensitive data and...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches

Video Plus, discover what steps the government and privacy watchdogs are taking to prevent any more embarrassing leaks such as HM Revenue & Customs losing computer discs with the details of 25 million people on them back in November.silicon.com...

Tags: nhs, hmrc, data breaches

[25 Apr 2008]

UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months

News The public sector accounted for 62 breaches and the private sector for 28.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...

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. HSBC faces possible investigation by the UK's financial watchdog after admitting losing a CD containing the details of 370,000...

Tags: hsbc, fsa, data loss

[07 Apr 2008]

Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The government ban on the movement of encrypted data triggered a performance slump at the UK's driving safety agency and forced it...

Tags: government, data loss, full disclosure

[04 Apr 2008]

ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. The UK's information watchdog has issued a stark warning to the government not to water down laws which could jail people selling...

Tags: data theft, data loss, ico

[01 Apr 2008]

More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Government departments have misplaced more than 1,000 laptops and almost 500 mobile phones - either lost or stolen - since 2001.

Tags: stolen, mobiles, laptops, lost

[01 Apr 2008]

Driver agency plugs data leaks

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Data security at the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) has been overhauled following the loss of three million learner driver details...

Tags: government, dsa, data loss

[28 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

News They have photographic ID on them, so it would be difficult for them to be used by individuals they have not been assigned to.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime

News Davis also backed silicon.com's calls for Full Disclosure, saying the Conservatives would introduce laws that would force companies to disclose when they lost their customer's details. Describing the government policy towards e-crime as showing a...

Tags: e-crime, security, cyber crime, threat

[06 Mar 2008]

'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. More recently, silicon.com won a significant victory in its Full Disclosure campaign to make government toughen its data...

Tags: full disclosure, data loss, hmrc, details

[29 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Lords above!

Comment It's been another week where silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign has loomed large, with two pieces of news emphasising why I'm proud we have stuck to our guns on this one. The whole area of data protection and data breaches has often seemed too...

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

[27 Feb 2008]

Internet shoppers clueless on web security

News Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. Consumers still lack awareness of basic online security alarms despite well publicised instances of data breaches and fraud.

Tags: netbenefit, fraud, ssl, enter

[26 Feb 2008]

Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach

News Costs for financial services firms were higher, which the report said reflected that customers of these organisations have high expectations of trust and privacy - so banks have more to lose from a data breach.silicon.com's Full Disclosure...

Tags: full disclosure, law, data breach, legislation

[25 Feb 2008]

Do proposed guidelines for online ads cut the mustard?

News Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy said the IAB should prohibit data collection without full disclosure and prior consent of the consumer. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has proposed new privacy guidelines related to online...

Tags: ads, ftc, iab, trade

[25 Feb 2008]

Lords take fresh look at data security

News The government's response to the original report rejected many of the committee's recommendations - including its calls for the introduction of a data breach notification law, a move backed by silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign.silicon.com's...

Tags: data, law, lords, breach

[22 Feb 2008]

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