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Firefox team stops collecting data to ensure user privacy (ZDNet)
The Firefox team decided this week to stop collecting unique identifiers that link crash reports from the same user. During the somewhat heated debate during an extended session of its weekly meeting, opponents said the practice violates user privacy, while proponents say having the data visible could help them fix bugs and solve...
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New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress (Small Business Computing)
A new year brings a second attempt to legislate data breaches and protect individual privacy.
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CVS Caremarks Privacy Practices, Conflicts of Interest Subject of D.C. City Council Hearing, Reports CtW (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON----CVS Caremark’s privacy practices and other questionable practices came under further scrutiny today as District of Columbia Councilmember David Catania chaired a hearing focusing on how CVS Caremark could be impacting D.C. consumer’s privacy, and on CVS Caremark’s questionable quality of services, value to health plans and apparent conflicts of interest.
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Email law 'an attack on privacy' (Channel 4)
Looming rules that will force internet companies to keep details of every email sent in the UK are an attack on privacy and a waste of money, it has been warned.
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Extortion Manhunt Highlights Need for Privacy Controls (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Why do we need overarching privacy and security rules governing how companies deal with our most sensitive data? Well, let's consider the case of the ongoing million-dollar manhunt for extortionists who have threatened to display millions of stolen health records--complete with prescription information--online.
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CVS Caremarks Privacy Practices, Conflicts of Interest Subject of D.C. City Council Hearing (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON----On Friday, Jan. 9 at 10:00 A.M., D.C. Councilmember David Catania will chair the Committee on Health hearing on how CVS Caremark’s practices regarding patient privacy could be impacting D.C. consumers and other questionable practices by the retail drug giant.
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New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress (InternetNews.com)
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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Protecting your privacy online (Guardian Unlimited)
I've come across a few news items recently re privacy issues, such as Phorm, and perhaps of more concern, the proposals suggested for government legislation to allow the monitoring of internet traffic. What can we as individuals do to protect our privacy? Peter McCutcheon Phorm involves rerouting all traffic from the ISPs that adopt it, whether users opt out or not, and if that isn't ...
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VeriSign Helps Educate Taxpayers About EV SSL In Light Of IRS's New Security And Privacy Standards (RetailSolutionsOnline)
New Standards Strongly Encourage All Online Tax Filing Services To Use Extended Validation SSL Certificates
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Urges Financial Organizations to Increase Vigilance and Oversight of Information Privacy and ... (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2009 -- Financial services firms, traditionally considered leaders in privacy and information security, are discovering that the process of protecting sensitive customer and employee information has become increasingly complex, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP .
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