Zurich and Travelers plead guilty to data protection breaches - Post Online

By Chinwe Akomah The firms pleaded guilty to 10 sample charges each after they were prosecuted for breaches of the Data Protection Act, according to the Irish Times. All of the firms have offered to make donations of £18 251 (€22 000) to charity.

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Practical Encryption Tips - BankInfoSecurity.com

Although this approach "may feel like a belt and suspenders," it's the best way to minimize the risk of data breaches involving tablets, smart phones, laptops and other mobile devices, which can easily be lost or stolen, Gates says.

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Any iPhone App Can Steal Your Contacts Now - Gizmodo Australia

... any privacy breaches. It's a compelling description, like always. Jobs even says that, before accepting apps in the app store, Apple analyses them so it can detect if they want to steal your contact information data and 'suck it up to the cloud'.

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Potential data breach as eircom laptops stolen - IrishExaminer.com

Two of the computers were stolen from eircom's offices at Parkwest in Dublin between December 28, 2011 to January 2, 2012, and the third was taken from the home of an employee on December 19. The data on all of the laptops was not encrypted.

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Councils fined for serious data breaches - Info4Security

The ICO's investigation found that, while Croydon Council did have data protection guidance available at the time of the theft, it was not actively communicated to staff and the organisation had failed to monitor whether it had been read and understood ...

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Philanderers Find a Booming Market Online - Sci-Tech Today

"People do cheat on their partners," says Biderman, who has been married "eight perfect, wonderful years" and has two kids, ages 7 and 4. "It doesn't mean they don't love them or don't want to stay married to them. Marriage is about more than sex.

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Tories table 'lawful access' bill today to monitor online activity - Ottawa Citizen

By Sarah Schmidt, Postmedia News February 14, 2012 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says new measures are needed to catch criminals in the 21st century. OTTAWA " The Conservative government isn't backing down from a plan to require telecommunications ...

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