Lancashire police fined after losing data on vulnerable girl - Computing

By Matthew Lake Lancashire Constabulary today became the first police force in England and Wales to have a fine slapped on it by the UK's data privacy watchdog following a major breach in data security. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ...

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What's Driving the Rise in Data Breaches? - PropertyCasualty360

InformationWeek recently reported that 419 data breaches were publicly disclosed in 2011 in the US, for a total of 22.9 million records exposed, based on a study from the Identity Theft Resource Center. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reports a larger ...

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Double Standard for Mobile Device Data Protection - BusinessNewsDaily

Over two-thirds of all small to mid-size businesses have a formal procedure for backing up company data, but less than a quarter have a formal policy in place regarding employees' use of personal devices for work purposes.

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After Kony 2012, 'What I Love About Africa' Reclaims Narrative - Global Voices Online

Anyone following online citizen media closely this month, would inevitably have come across the heated global debate over the Invisible Children viral campaign to stop Ugandan war criminal and rebel army leader Joseph Kony. While the Kony 2012 campaign ...

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British student facing extradition to US over copyright infringement - UNLIMITED CMU

This story has been rumbling on for some time, and centres on a website that O'Dwyer ran called TVShack, which provided links to unlicensed content available on various video sharing platforms. Several such services emerged in the latter years of the ...

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Beware: Top 10 scams - Independent Online

Like most South Africans, I receive an attempted scam via e-mail almost daily, most often purporting to come from my bank, prompting me to do something online that would result in my account being cleaned out. And recently, I had my credit card ...

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Email census finds 44% of client-side marketers aren't prepared for security ... - Econsultancy (blog)

Almost half of client-side email marketers surveyed for the Adestra/Econsultancy Email Marketing Industry Census 2012 said that they do not have policies or processes in place to guard against breaches of data security. As well as this, ...

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