Opinion: For every leak, there's a solution - Computing

By Marc Lee Punishments for public sector data breaches hit a new high-water mark recently as the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposed its biggest fine to date. Midlothian Council in Scotland was fined £120000 for sending information on ...

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Matt Gurney: Vic Toews should step down - National Post (blog)

... media to commit crimes such as identify theft, the production and exchange of child pornography, and to co-ordinate criminal, even terrorist, plots. Governments and police forces have struggled to keep apace with these dark uses of online tools.

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Beware opening door to online surveillance, critics say - CTV.ca

Computer hard drives, from closed criminal cases, sit on a shelf waiting to be wiped of information at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center in Linthicum, Maryland, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP / Cliff Owen) OTTAWA â€" Opponents of the ...

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Our internet safety obsession is bad for children - Wired.co.uk

A whole global day dedicated predominately to keeping children safe online. A big investment, across the globe of time, money, and resources. But to what end? In the week just past the FTC came out with a series of statements expressing concern over ...

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Breached Card Details Threaten Privacy - BankInfoSecurity.com

Credit Eligible Data breaches tied to credit and debit cards accounted for more than 25 percent of all breaches in 2011, according to a new report - a disturbing trend that puts the onus on banking institutions and merchants to bolster payment card ...

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SunPower deposition reveals details over former employees who 'stole off' to ... - pv magazine

As first reported in Justia.com, in addition to civil damages and injunctive relief, SunPower is seeking to hold its ex-employees criminally liable for violating a California law prohibiting unauthorized computer data access and fraud.

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McCain says Egypt working to resolve NGO crisis - Newsday

News Newsday > News Content Preview Newsday 7 day/Optimum Online subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online subscriber? Click here McCain says Egypt working to resolve NGO crisis Originally published: February 20, ...

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SOPA replacement uses child porn as excuse to spy on 99.7 percent of Americans - ITworld.com

"The data retention mandate in this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal and threaten the online privacy and free speech rights of every American," according to Kevin Bankston, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Yahoo! says case against it is abuse of process of law - NDTV

He has submitted to the court and to the companies involved examples of online content that he describes as obscene and inflammatory. The CD that he has provided has morphed photos of politicians and obscene depictions of Hindu deities, ...

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Back to Black: The UK Shutdown of RnBXclusive.com - American University Intellectual Property Brief

If you thought stopping online piracy was only an American prerogative, think again. The United Kingdom's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA - not to be confused with SOPA) has arrested the owner of music site RnBXclusive and shut down access to its ...

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Using Internet 'Crime' Laws, - CPJ Press Freedom Online

But some country's cybercrime laws are constructed so broadly that normal journalistic activity online can be deemed illegal. On April 1, 2011, Angola's National Assembly voted on a "Law to Combat Crime in the Area of Information and Communication ...

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Award for centre that teaches children to stay safe - Yorkshire Post

A CENTRE in Rotherham which is run by the police and fire service to teach children about staying safe has been commended by the High Sheriff of South Yorkshire. The Lifewise Centre in Hellaby features a life-size set of a town which is used to deliver ...

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