Outsourcing and personal data protection: is it always a smooth ride?
The Slovak Spectator
As a result of the complex set of relations established by outsourcing, what may at the beginning appear as a simple form of hardware leasing, could, in the end, result in a complicated structure triggering various personal data protection issues. This is caused ...

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Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?
Democracy Now
A 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act actually allows law enforcement to read emails that are stored for more than 180 days without a warrant. Now, of course, that law was enacted before there was a World Wide Web, before there was ...

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UK's data watchdog to audit websites for compliance
Inquirer
THE UK'S DATA PROTECTION WATCHDOG, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will peer at 250 websites in an attempt to build a picture of UK data protection compliance. The ICO is not alone in this and it is working with its peers in other European ...

FTC votes to retain July 1, 2013 COPPA Rule compliance date
Lexology (registration)
Less than two weeks after providing additional guidance on the recent changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Rule, in the form of updated Frequently Asked Questions, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted unanimously to ...

German court rules Apple's privacy policy violates German law
Lexology (registration)
On April 30, 2013, the regional court of Berlin enjoined Apple Sales International, which is based in Ireland, (“Apple”) from relying on eight of its existing standard data protection clauses in contracts with customers based in Germany. The court also prohibited ...

Data protection: defining innovative drug in Canada
Lexology (registration)
Canada amended its Data Protection Regulations in 2006 to provide protection for innovative drugs in a second attempt to implement Canada's 1994 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property ...

Data Protection: Binding Corporate Rules Launched for Processors
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The European data protection authorities, assembled in the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), launched Binding Corporate Rules (BCR, also known as Binding Safe Processing Rules) for processors from 1 January 2013. Previously BCRs were only available ...

Data Protection: Update On EU Data Protection Reform
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
In January 2012, the European Commission presented proposals for a comprehensive reform of the data protection rules with an objective to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy. This proposed reform contained two legislative ...

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP | The right to be forgotten – who can decide?
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
Although this is much vaunted as a new right there is a strong argument that it simply builds on existing rights under the current data protection framework – the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 upon which our Data Protection Act 1998 is based.

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New Children's Online Privacy Protection Rules Impose Heightened Compliance ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Effective July 1, 2013, recently enacted Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations will impose greater obligations on website operators and online service providers under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This is the first revision ...
What Every Online Business Needs to Know About the Children's Online Privacy ...Entrepreneur
Got a couple of COPPA questions? FTC issues updated FAQS on amended ...Lexology (registration)
Davis Wright Tremaine | FTC Denies Requests to Extend Effective Date for ...Linex Legal (registration) (press release)

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Digital privacy gets push from the right
Politico
... through the Capitol — and this time, movement is coming from the right. Republicans have been increasingly attaching their names to reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — an issue where Democrats have traditionally taken the lead.

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FTC releases FAQs for COPPA
Lexology (registration)
To help Web site operators, mobile app developers, plug-ins, and advertising networks prepare for the forthcoming changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule, the Federal Trade Commission has released an FAQ guide. The new Rule is set ...

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Federal Court certifies consumer class action alleging comScore violated federal ...
Lexology (registration)
The complaint asserts claims under the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701(a)(1)–(2); the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2511(1)(a) & (d) (“ECPA”); and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) (“CFAA”).

Sepaton Named Finalist for Disk-based Enterprise Backup Solution in The ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The only grid scalable backup and recovery solution in the industry, the S2100-ES3 delivers the industry's fastest backup performance and the largest single system capacity, enabling easy-to-use, cost-effective data protection for businesses with massive ...

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PerspecSys, Inc. Raises $12M Round of Series B Equity Financing
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
BUSINESS WIRE)--PerspecSys Inc., the leader in cloud data protection solutions for the enterprise, today announced it has raised $12 million in funding co-led by new investors Paladin Capital Group and Ascent Venture Partners, and joined by return backer ...

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Nearly Half of Employees Admit To Bypassing Data Security - US Study
Wealth Briefing (subscription)
The issue of how to handle data protection is one of the most important facing the wealth management industry. High net worth and high-profile individuals increasingly find themselves a choice target for hackers and the challenge of handling important client ...

Bipartisan privacy caucus pushes drone restriction bill
Kansas Watchdog (blog)
The state representatives, two Democrats and two Republicans, on Thursday introduced a bill that would “ensure drones do not threaten the privacy rights of the people in Wisconsin.” The measure restricts law enforcement from using a drone that is equipped ...

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California's 'Right To Know Act' Brings Consumers More Privacy Protection
NewYorkInjuryNews (press release)
A new bill being considered by California lawmakers will bring California consumers additional privacy rights by requiring companies to disclose to consumers the data they've collected and with whom it was shared during the past year, if the consumer ...

Privacy commissioner reminds APRA of data offshoring rules
iT News
The Office of the Information Commissioner has urged APRA to heed Australian privacy law as it develops its data protection guide for the finance sector. In a draft guide released in December, APRA noted that it had become easier for banks and insurers to ...

The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked
ITworld.com
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service | Data Protection. May 09, 2013, 9:19 PM — Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology ...

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Is the FBI Reading Emails Without a Warrant?
Yahoo! News
The practice all goes back to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which privacy advocates have been saying is woefully outdated as it pertains to modern technology. CNET reported the FBI saying in a statement that the bureau obtains ...

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Mark Udall 'Extremely Concerned' About Warrantless Email Searches
Huffington Post
Udall is one of a number of senators who have sought to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, which governs how law enforcement agencies get access to emails, to always require a warrant. The Department of Justice has signaled its ...

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Reps. Graves, Yoder Introduce Email Privacy Act
Patch.com
The Graves-Yoder Email Privacy Act is the companion to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Amendments Act (S. 607) introduced by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT). Related Topics: Email Privacy Act, Rep Kevin Yoder, and ...

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House Reps. Float Companion Bill To Senate ECPA Reforms
Law360 (subscription)
Tom Graves, R-Ga., and Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., unveiled H.R. 1852, the Email Privacy Act, which would update the quarter-century old Electronic Communications Privacy Act and impose warrant requirements on government access to certain stored electronic ...

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Senator demands DOJ, FBI seek warrants to read e-mail
CNET
The senator's statement urges Congress to move quickly to update the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act -- enacted during an era of dialup modems and the black and white Macintosh Plus -- that currently does not require search warrants for all ...

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Maryland AG urges advertisers to pull ads from Ask.fm
Legal News Line
The site may also collect personal information about children in ways that violate the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The site has also been connected to multiple teen suicides. “This website is putting children at risk and we think ...

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Your email is open to government snooping, if it's old enough
Digital Trends
The 2012 edition of the FBI's Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide specifically explains that “In enacting the [Electronic Communications Privacy Act], Congress concluded that customers may not retain a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' in ...

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The FBI Is Winning the Fight to Invade Your Online Privacy
Motherboard (blog)
The revelation that the FBI doesn't believe the Fourth Amendment applies to all online communication comes via the ACLU, which filed a FOIA request to see if the FBI was exploiting loopholes in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), ...

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Government still spying on emails and phone calls with no stinkin' warrant
Computerworld (blog)
Granted, the New York Times reported on CALEA and the ACLU reported on ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act), but both cases deal with the FBI and surveillance of digital communications. Both seem to ignore Americans' Fourth Amendment ...

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Children First Act – Privacy commissioner raises concerns
Beacon News (blog)
Clayton says individuals' right to know what records the agencies have on them is crucial to protecting privacy rights in the province. Under the new Children First Act, individuals will not know what information is collected about them, by whom and for what ...

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What Every Online Business Needs to Know About the Children's Online Privacy ...
Entrepreneur
Congress enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in 1998. The law allows parents to control the information collected by businesses and websites from children. Since that time, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has monitored ...
New Children's Online Privacy Protection Rules Impose Heightened Compliance ...Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Got a couple of COPPA questions? FTC issues updated FAQS on amended ...Lexology (registration)
Davis Wright Tremaine | FTC Denies Requests to Extend Effective Date for ...Linex Legal (registration) (press release)

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FTC rejects industry request to delay new child privacy rules
Lexology (registration)
Revisions to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act's implementing regulations (COPPA Rule) go into effect on July 1, 2013. The Federal Trade Commission has voted unanimously to reject a formal request by numerous trade organizations to delay the ...

Transparency and Accountability Don't Hurt Security—They're Crucial to It
GovExec.com
As with the Patriot Act after 9/11, the debate over whether these new laws are helpful will be minimal, but the effects on civil liberties could be large. Even though most people are skeptical about sacrificing personal freedoms for security, it's hard for politicians ...

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We need to preserve our civil liberties
Kansas City Star
In the weeks after 9/11, our elected officials in Congress offered up the USA Patriot Act. The law attacked the nation's founding principles under the guise of fighting a war on terror. It was overwhelmingly passed in both the House of Representatives and the ...

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We need to preserve our civil liberties
Bellingham Herald
In the weeks after 9/11, our elected officials in Congress offered up the USA Patriot Act. The law attacked the nation's founding principles under the guise of fighting a war on terror. It was overwhelmingly passed in both the House of Representatives and the ...

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French CNIL annual report shows increased complaints, audits, sanctions
Lexology (registration)
On April 23, the French data protection authority, the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés), published its annual report for 2012, emphasizing a significant increase in complaints, audits, and sanctions. We review each of these topics ...

Article 29 Working Party issues additional guidance on BCRs for data processors
Lexology (registration)
Processor BCRs provide a new avenue for data controllers to transfer EU personal data to processors (such as cloud service providers) located in third countries not considered to ensure an adequate level of protection under the 1995 EU Data Protection ...

Article 29 Working Party gives new guidance on the principle of purpose limitation
Lexology (registration)
The European Union's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“WP29″), which consists of the 27 data protection authorities of the EU Member States, has published the “Opinion 03/2013 on purpose limitation” (Working Paper WP203), adopted on 2 April ...

Got a couple of COPPA questions? FTC issues updated FAQS on amended ...
Lexology (registration)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a revised set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) explaining certain aspects of the newly amended rule implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that are schedule to take ...

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FBI can snoop emails without warrants, says ACLU
V3.co.uk
Documents that came to light following an ACLU Freedom of Information request say FBI agents can use a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to read private emails without a warrant. The loophole in the ECPA allows government ...

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TMT Legal Update: Justice Minister raises queries over UK cost of new EU ...
Eversheds Press Office (press release)
The current EU Data Protection regime was agreed in 1995 and given the degree to which technology has developed since then, it has been likened to “an analogue regime for a digital world”. In order to reform the regime, the European Commission (the ...

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Tips for Setting Up or Improving a Home Office
taosnews
New technology is making investing in data protection easier and more affordable. For example, Carbonite offers online (commonly referred to as cloud) backup solutions that are robust enough for a medium-sized business and affordable for even very small ...

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EMC unveils “Data Protection Suite” licensing solution
ITProPortal
EMC will offer a new flexible licensing model to its customers called "Data Protection Suite" in a bid to help them lower their cost of ownership and allows them to "mix and match the usage of individual products to best fit their requirements". The suite will allow ...

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SafeNet Survey States that Encryption Solutions Help Reduce the Difficulties of ...
ITvoir
SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection, today announced results from a survey conducted by SafeNet of 257 Asia-Pacific security professionals, revealing that time and costs are the biggest pains for implementing a typical enterprise data protection ...

With Cloud, Privacy Issues Loom
Texas GOP Vote
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was passed in 1986, 27 years ago, a virtual eternity in the Internet age. Despite its modern-sounding name, ECPA predates the World Wide Web. It was written when few people owned home computers and even ...

Gansler Urges Major Advertisers to Pull Ads
Southern Maryland News Net
... “anonymous publication of malicious personal attacks on teenagers and children as young as 8 years old,” but also appears to collect personal information about children in ways that violate the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Alberta Privacy Commissioner says Child First Act threatens privacy
globalnews.ca
EDMONTON – Alberta's proposed Children First Act will erode privacy rights and undermine Albertans' control over their own health and personal information, privacy commissioner Jill Clayton says. Alberta's Information and Privacy Commissioner criticized ...

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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Book Set to Release ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Data Protection Manager allows backup and recovery of Microsoft Workloads, including SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, Client Computers, and Hyper-V. Enabling disk and tape-based backup methods, DPM also allows central management of the system ...

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EMC launches Data Protection Suite - ITWire.com
iTWire
EMC's Data Protection Suite is intended to simplify the use of the company's backup and archive products by providing flexible licensing model allowing 'mix and match' usage of the various components of the suite. The suite encompasses Avamar, ...

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Social media for parents: How Facebook protects kids
WCSH-TV
There are government guidelines set by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It basically says that 13 is the age that a person's information can be collected online. So 13 is the age a person can sign up for email, and social media. TIP ...

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