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CIPP Guide » Safe Harbor ComplianceSafe Harbor is an advantageous agreement between the United States and the European Union that governs the protection of data during transfer from the E.U. to the U.S.
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Think Tank Study Shows Top Web Trends Are Security RisksMobile technology, virtualization, the social web, cloud computing - a think tank study has all our good friends on a hit list. The study, which shows primary security and privacy concerns of U.S. government IT leaders, is making the rounds among military and government bloggers. Policy makers ...
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Facebook Worm Spreads With a Lurid Lure by PC World: Yahoo! TechSome Facebook users have been infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site, according to security researchers. The worm posts an image on a victim's Facebook Wall with a photo of a woman in a bikini and the ...
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NFL Player Has Twitter Account Hacked With Embarrassing ConsequencesNFL Player Has Twitter Account Hacked With Embarrassing Consequences There have been several high profile hackings of Twitter accounts, with the likes of Britney Spears and even Barack Obama having their accounts compromised (with bizarre tweets sent from them) for at least a few minutes. ...
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Trust Linux!A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments. The latest release of openSUSE, a Linux version sponsored by ...
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BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws - Boing BoingA source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament. These changes will ...
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UK: Millions of customer records soldRogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday. Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, said the case was a serious breach of data privacy, and he called for harsher punishments ...
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CIPP Guide » Cookies: Tracking your Internet experienceInternet cookies are an inherent part of Internet use. Many sites cannot function without them. Cookies are confusing, particularly because many myths surround their use. While cookies are not the source of viruses or spam, they do present potential privacy issues in their ability to track a ...
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Cryptographic voting debutsLast week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, helped develop the system and says he’s quite pleased ...
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What would George Orwell think of Google Dashboard? | DVICEThanks to Google, most people know who Eric Arthur Blair is. Doesn't ring a bell? You might know him better by his pen name, George Orwell. You know — 1984, Animal Farm? The question is, if he were alive today, what would he think of Google, and its power to spread information — sometimes very ...
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