In the next few weeks, up to 100 companies will receive notification letters that they may be violating a nearly decade-old privacy law that also covers mobile applications.
India's government claims it has found a way to monitor email sent via BlackBerry, something even manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) claims it can't do.
April 05, 2012
A privacy officer at a global company found a way to collaborate efficiently at a top level, while ensuring the protection of company assets, reports Greg Masters.
March 01, 2012
U.S. agencies argue that monitoring social media will arm them with "situational awareness" to thwart potential attacks.
Canadian lawyers may have opened a legal can of worms by requesting the public release of heavily censored photographs.
August 01, 2011
Amid a hodgepodge of national laws, calls for a global data exchange standard grow louder as sensitive data traverses national boundaries.
As part of a broad effort to better safeguard student privacy, the U.S. Department of Education hired its first ever chief privacy officer.
February 01, 2011
Consumers have adopted personalized applications of all varieties, yet the way things stand, they must be prepared to sacrifice something at least as valuable: their privacy.
October 20, 2010
Learning, teaching and scholarship is not restricted anymore to the campus, says Dennis Devlin, the CISO of Brandeis University, who will be a featured speaker at next month's SC World Congress
A signature from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only thing standing in the way of a new measure that would strengthen California's groundbreaking data breach notification bill.
A ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada makes it clear that it is the responsibility of internet users to ascertain the age of people they chat with, but falls short of saying how.
Yet another federal data security and breach notification bill has been introduced in Congress.
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid will pay a $1 million fine and take corrective actions to settle charges of violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Reactions are mixed to a proposed U.S. House bill that would govern the collection, use and dissemination of consumer information and impose fines of up to $5 million for violators.
After already being hit with at least three lawsuits over its admitted collection of information from unprotected Wi-Fi networks, Google now is being subject to a multistate investigation into the privacy blunder.
Google this week was hit with a third class-action lawsuit over its collection of information from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.
Alberta has become the first province to add a data breach notification requirement into its legislation.
Federal lawmakers this week released a controversial draft bill intended to protect the privacy of personal information that appears online.
A former UCLA Health System employee, apparently disgruntled over an impending firing, has been sentenced to four months in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to illegally snooping into patient records, mainly those belonging to celebrities.
California Sen. Joe Simitian has reintroduced legislation that would stiffen the state's landmark breach notification bill by requiring breached organizations to provide customers with additional information.
The Data Accountability and Trust Act would require any organization that experiences a breach of electronic data containing personal information to notify all affected U.S. residents.
The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation this week filed a finalized version of its data security regulations, scheduled to take effect March 1, 2010. The requirements must be followed by companies handling the personal data of Bay State residents. The final version clarifies the deadline by which companies must impose the provisions on their third-party providers. Existing contracts with these third parties must include safeguard rules by March 1, 2012, but new or updated contracts must meet the March 1, 2010 deadline. -- DK
A draft bill approved Wednesday by a U.S. House subcommittee would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to coordinate government in the development of cybersecurity standards, a move to make the creation process more streamlined.
Despite regulations mandating protection of health care records, more than half of American hospitals fail to take appropriate steps to safeguard the privacy of patients, according to a new survey of health care IT security professionals.
In an apparent surprise move, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rebuffed a bill that would have updated the 2003 landmark California data breach notification law.
California Sen. Joe Simitian is close to seeing another of his privacy bills get signed into law -- this one requiring that data breach notification letters contain more details.
Lawmakers expect to consider privacy laws when they return from summer recess.
The deadline to comply with Massachusetts' new data security regulations -- considered among the strictest in the nation -- has been extended three months, until March 1, 2010, the state announced last week. The provisions also were updated to reflect a risk-based approach for developing a written information security policy, a move meant to assuage small businesses that have expressed concern over meeting the demands. The new language dictates that in implementing safeguards, organizations should take into account their size, the types of records they maintain and the ID theft threat they pose. — DK
Little-known Adobe Flash cookies are being used by some websites to get around users' attempts to avoid being tracked by advertising networks, according to research from University of California, Berkeley.
A Vermont senator is trying again with a law that would, among other things, standardize requirements on data breach notification.
