An introduction to the laws on data protection and privacy rights
Lexology (registration)
While the UAE constitution and certain federal laws recognise an individual right to privacy in specific circumstances, the UAE has not established a federal data protection regime of the type found in jurisdictions such as Australia, the European Union or Hong ...

Certification of privacy class: harbinger of things to come?
Lexology (registration)
... which plaintiffs in a proposed class can overcome their initial burden to plead damages by bringing claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”) and the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), both of which provide for statutory damages.

Matheson | Insights: Application of the new European data protection regulation ...
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
These rules will bring many US tech companies within the scope of European data protection law, many of which have kept their data processing in the US in the past to avoid becoming subject to the current Data Protection Directive. International businesses ...

FTC announces COPPA Rule changes to catch up with social networks ...
Lexology (registration)
As 2012 drew to a close, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued amended rules updating its regulations that implement the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (i.e., the COPPA Rule). The FTC's extensive changes to the COPPA Rule are intended to ...

EMC Announces Updates to VMAX Enterprise Storage
CIO Today
With this integration EMC marries the two business continuance technologies to simplify data protection for the world's most mission-critical data centers. In addition, RecoverPoint 4.0 is now more powerful. It offers increased scale · Relevant Products/Services ...

Use Data Protection Manager To Keep Crucial Information Safe And Available
Lifehacker Australia
Private cloud implementations give you flexibility and security, but how can you ensure those essential business apps and data are backed up in case of emergency? System Center 2012′s Data Protection Manager feature is the easy solution. The latest ...

FalconStor Automated Disaster Recovery Solution Wins Long Island Software ...
NASDAQ
MELVILLE, N.Y., May 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:FALC), a market leader in disk-based data protection, today announced that the RecoverTrac™ automated disaster recovery tool was honored as a 2013 Long Island ...

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As edtech booms, are failing Vegas schools the perfect guinea pig?
Las Vegas Weekly
I think what's tricky about bringing social media into K-12, at least, is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rules, where they set very strict limits on what kinds of communications you can have with children under the age of 13. That's a ...

Domestic Drone Bills Seek To Protect Privacy Rights - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Rick Scott (R) signed into law last week. "The bill is the right thing to do, because the idea of drones spying on law-abiding citizens is inconsistent with the American experience," state Sen. Rob Bradley (R), co-sponsor of the Florida legislation, told The ...

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Employee Buy-In Is Key to Cloud Security
BusinessNewsDaily
Are your employees the weak link in your company's cloud data protection plan? Despite your best efforts to keep your company's data safe in the cloud, it's hard to prevent employees from sharing company data via cloud-based tools like Dropbox and Google ...

EFF report slams Verizon and AT&T over user data protection
Android Community
EFF report slams Verizon and AT&T over user data protection. 02 May 2013 by Cory Gunther Discuss (0). A popular Digital Rights Advocacy group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is back this year and have released their annual report card.

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Brodies LLP | Court holds that failure to comply with data protection laws can be ...
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
A recent case before the Court of Session has held that a company was in material breach of contract as a result of a failure to comply with data protection laws. The case also provided further guidance on when the courts will consider a aspirational ...

FTC updates COPPA FAQS to address new rules
Lexology (registration)
The FTC has updated its Frequently Asked Questions for complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule ("COPPA") as a follow up to recent revisions to the Rule. As we previously reported, changes to the COPPA Rule go into effect on ...

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Verizon, MySpace Fail Data Protection Test: EFF - eWeek
eWeek
... New Era Networks Slide Shows More. Follow Us: RSS · Facebook · Twitter · Linkedin · Find us on Google+ · Small Business Virtualization Database PC Hardware Servers · Click here · Home · Security / Verizon, MySpace Fail Data-Protection Test: EFF. right ...

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Cloud Expo New York: Predicting the Future of Cloud-Based Data Protection
SYS-CON Media (press release)
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Henrik Rosendahl, Senior Vice President, Cloud Solutions, at Quantum Corporation, will explore trends in cloud-based backup and DR, and how current approaches to cloud data protection fall short.

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Google Faces $1B Class Action Over College Email Snooping
Law360 (subscription)
Plaintiffs Robert Fread and Rafael Carrillo allege the Web giant violates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by systematically harvesting content from emails sent and received via those educational addresses, despite the fact that, unlike regular Gmail ...

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Dear Washington Post: Patient privacy rights are no joke
FierceEMR
State privacy laws go back even further. There has been a lot of publicity about privacy rights. People have gone to jail simply for snooping; for instance, in 2009, an Arkansas doctor was fined $5,000 and sentenced to perform 50 hours of community service ...

Virtual Piggy is a 2013 Seal of Approval Winner
Wall Street Journal (press release)
The technology company delivers online security platforms designed for the Under 18 age group in the global online market, and also enables online businesses the ability to function in a manner consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection ...

Virtual Piggy is a 2013 Seal of Approval Winner
MarketWatch (press release)
The technology company delivers online security platforms designed for the Under 18 age group in the global online market, and also enables online businesses the ability to function in a manner consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection ...

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EMC Delivers Added Data Protection To Mission-Critical Datacentres
Biztech2.com
With new SRDF and RecoverPoint 4.0 integration, VMAX is the only tier 1 storage array offering simultaneous Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and remote copies on the same LUN. Customers can now recover every write, and at any point-in-time between ...

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EMC offers 'continuous protection' to hot 'n' heavy VMAX users
Register
EMC has boosted the continuous data protection capability of VMAX, meaning that every change made to the data held in the arrays be recorded and replicated to a remote system. The storage giant's unified file-and-block storage platform VNX will get a ...

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Top 10 tips: Why you should use the cloud and how to do it securely
ITProPortal
Data is key and possibly the most important asset for organisations - a single breach or leak of sensitive data can cripple the entire business, so a data protection strategy must protect the data itself. The ability to move sensitive information into and throughout ...

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Institutionalized Spying on Americans
Bay Area Indymedia
The Patriot Act authorized so-called National Security Letters (NSLs). FBI agents take full advantage. They do so by demanding personal customer records from ISPs, financial institutions, credit companies, and other sources without prior court approval.

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NHS denying patients chance to see their own medical records over data ...
Mirror.co.uk
Patients are being denied access to vital information about their own health because of staff fears over data protection rules. The alarming revelation emerged in a major review of how millions of private medical records are looked after across the NHS.

Data Privacy Heat Map Shows Increasing Global Momentum Towards Data ...
CSO (blog)
As data flows between countries with disparate data protection laws, firms need to ensure the safety of their customer and employee data through regulatory compliance and due diligence. However, multinational organizations often find global data privacy ...

Twitter, ISP praised for protecting customer data
iT News
The EFF scores different providers in six areas of data protection. The Foundation's criteria asks, for example, whether a warrant is required to access content, whether the organisation tells its users about data requests and whether it publishes transparency ...

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Some of These Tech Companies Protect Your Privacy, Others Don't Make the ...
NASDAQ
Requires a warrant for content: NO Tells users about government data requests: NO Publishes transparency reports: NO Publishes law enforcement guidelines: NO Fights for users' privacy rights in courts: YES Fights for users' privacy rights in Congress: YES ...

Could DPA training help reduce the number of data breaches in the UK public ...
EIN News (press release)
/EINPresswire.com/ IT Governance, the Data Protection Act (DPA) compliance experts, are advising public sector organisations that they must act immediately to address data protection gaps or risk heavy fines and reputation damage. IT Governance's ...

EFF : Online data protection is a mixed bag
Infosecurity Magazine
You are here: Home; /; News; /; EFF: Online data protection is a mixed bag · The EFF saw a dramatic increase in the number of companies publishing law enforcement guidelines. Share. More services. Related Stories. Google releases censorship data in its ...

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FTC Issues Guidance for Ammended Children's Privacy Rules
Compliance Week
The guidance deals with changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which is intended to give parents control over what information is collected from their young children online, specifically those under the age of 13. The FTC ...

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Email becomes new frontier in privacy fight
MSNBC
While the government needs a warrant to search your home, when it comes to email, authorities can search and read most of them—no warrant required—due to a glitch in The Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The 1968 ECPA allows law enforcement ...

Privacy no big deal with Apple, AT&T, Verizon - Cal Coast News
Cal Coast News
Personal information shared on the Internet can be obtained by government and law enforcement officials with varying degrees of ease, but Apple, AT&T and Verizon have received low marks for failing to protect individual privacy rights, according to a ...

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Why a Judge Asserting That Privacy Is Not a Right Is Bad News for the Internet
Motherboard (blog)
Legal scholars can tell you that tracing the roots of privacy in the Constitution is an elusive task, one that justices and law professors have argued over for most of the last century. Undoubtedly, the Bill of Rights protects many aspects of privacy, such as the ...

Data breach protection requires new barriers - SearchSecurity.com - TechTarget
TechTarget
They are learning new ways to take malicious advantage of installed software such as Java and Adobe. Alternatively, the defenders must be more adept and agile and maintain focused data protection with the new attack methodologies. The security world is ...

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Belgian Privacy Commission refers data breach case to Public Prosecutor
Lexology (registration)
The Privacy Commission investigated the case and concluded that there had been a violation of the Belgian Data Protection Act, but since the Privacy Commission does not have the authority to impose sanctions for the violation, it referred the case to the ...

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Apple, AT&T, and Verizon fall short in protecting your data
InfoWorld
If the company belongs to the Digital Due Process Coalition, a group that is pushing the U.S. Congress to rewrite the (largely outmoded) Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. Of the companies surveyed, only Twitter and Sonic.net lit up the boards ...

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Don't trust Apple, Verizon with your data, says EFF's privacy report
ZDNet
Perhaps causing some conflicts, "Apple and AT&T are members of the Digital Due Process coalition" — a group which attempts to clarify U.S. online snooping laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) — "but don't observe any of the ...

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CMS Cameron McKenna | Applying data protection to apps - Linex Search
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has submitted its findings and recommendations on smart phone applications and related data protection and privacy issues. Apps are developed with the capabilities to collect and process large quantities of ...

Meet Disk Drill 2.0 - An Absolutely New Data Recovery App for Mac OS X - prMac
prMac (press release)
Data protection includes the ability to save HFS+ metadata, preserve copies of deleted files, and monitor the S.M.A.R.T. status of internal and external drives. While data recovery methods allow users to rescue files from almost any type of storage device, with ...

Institutionalized Spying on Americans - The Peoples Voice
The People's Voice
Patriot Act legislation authorized unchecked government surveillance powers. Financial, medical and other personal information can be accessed freely. So-called "sneak and peak" searches may be conducted through "delayed notice" warrants, roving ...

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Double standard on Patriot Act
Boston Herald
It was less than a decade ago that the citizens of Massachusetts went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly against the USA Patriot Act, the national security law passed six weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The voting wasn't even close.

Judge's Privacy Putdown Lends Credence To Gov't Snooping
Law360 (subscription)
Congress is currently working to rein in the government's ability to surveil private networks by amending the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to require warrants for police access to private electronic exchanges. But Judge Posner characterized ...

Path's unwanted messaging tactics have users yelling spam
SlashGear
The FTC smacked them with a $800,000 fine for what it said was violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act due to the app pulling some information from those under the age of 13. A day shy of 3 months later and the app is in hot water ...

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EMC Focuses on Data Protection for VMAX, VPLEX Refresh - InfoStor
Infostor magazine
EMC today announced new updates to its VMAX and VPLEX storage systems and the company's RecoverPoint software, all of which are aimed at extending the company's data protection capabilities to more types of workloads and customers. Following up ...

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White House: 'Cybersecurity Legislation Must Not Violate Americans' Right to ...
Huffington Post
"The President has been clear that the United States urgently needs to modernize our laws and practices relating to cybersecurity, both for national security and the security of our country's businesses -- but that shouldn't come at the expense of privacy," wrote ...

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The State AG Enforcement Era Has Begun - Daily Report
Daily Report (registration)
... Act and regulations promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), certain provisions of federal consumer product safety statutes administered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, ...

Privacy and Personal Data Protection Bill Under Review
The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer
The Legislation and Regulatory Procedures Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Privacy and Data Protection and Freedom of Information is being hosted by the Caribbean Harmonization of ICT Policies (HIPCAR) and the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis.

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Hunton & Williams | Belgian Privacy Commission Refers Data Breach Case to ...
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
The Privacy Commission investigated the case and concluded that there had been a violation of the Belgian Data Protection Act, but since the Privacy Commission does not have the authority to impose sanctions for the violation, it referred the case to the ...

Hungary approves squeeze on public data access - GlobalPost
GlobalPost
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government says the amendment, approved by lawmakers in a fast-track procedure, would prevent the "abuse of data requests" that clog up the work of the data protection agency and other organisations. From next year, only two ...

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Working Party finds fault with focus of proposed smart meter data protection ...
Out-Law.com
The Commission had intended for the Template to "describe the envisaged processing operations, an assessment of the risks to the rights and freedoms of data subjects, the measures envisaged to address the risks, safeguards, security measures and ...