They also allegedly removed confidential data, which is considered a violation of state secrecy laws.
One writes an article based on the still-confidential data, to be released when the embargo ends.
Details of benefit claims, passport photocopies and mortgage payments were included in the confidential data found near Exeter Airport.
Fake certificates have been issued before now by several other firms and exposed confidential data including login names and passwords.
In its letter Monday, Harvard said confidential data from a board meeting also made its way to the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.
The hospital shares non-confidential data with Cambridgeshire Police every month.
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One smart proposal has at least some support from both sides: a confidential data-collection system to identify defective products that are still on the market, track cases and determine how well the directive is working.
One smart proposal has at least some support from both sides: transparency, a confidential data-collection system to identify defective products that are still on the market, track cases and determine how well the directive is working.
By their count, U.S. and U.K. workers on corporate laptops are more than twice as likely, compared with desktop users, to send confidential info by instant message, and about a third more likely to send confidential data across Webmail.
But using those services means confidential data is stored on someone else's servers, where it can be exposed to anyone who subpoenas it from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) or Yahoo!
They do not hold confidential customer data like credit card info. (In fact, the companies that need to keep confidential data, like financial and health services firms, are still not embracing cloud based systems as of yet.) But for the rest of us, CRM systems are basically places that store activities, appointments, emails, notes and phone calls.
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Meanwhile, the National Organization for Marriage charged Monday that someone at the IRS leaked its confidential tax data to a gay rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign.
"We draw the line at agency reference to or reliance on Genentech trade secret and confidential commercial data and information to approve a competitor's product, " the petition states.
Bankers, for example, could share confidential financial data securely.
The challenges to maintaining the privacy of confidential patient data continue to grow as more and more of this information is being entered into new electronic systems, as mandated by government regulations.
Similarly, it certainly strikes a sour note to see that an employee of nearly two decades gets whacked by his former employer with not repaying a draw and for allegedly stealing confidential computer data.
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Businesses adopting these guidelines would generally need to keep such data confidential, and notify and obtain consent from their customers for the collection, use and transfer of this data.
No organization is immune to the loss or compromise of confidential and sensitive data.
In one e-mail, the unnamed co-conspirator tells Chilowitz he is going to approach "certain billionaire managers of a hedge fund about working for them" and asks Chilowitz to get certain confidential prime brokerage data.
The U.S. attorney said Chilowitz sent the confidential list and data from a Morgan Stanley computer to his personal AOL account and had communications from his Morgan Stanley e-mail to that unnamed "co-conspirator, " who worked at an unidentified consulting company that helped negotiate prime broker rates for hedge funds.
Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is.
Companies can also take out insurance against having to pay damages if confidential financial or medical data are accidentally or maliciously released.
The UpTeq NFC acts as a tamper-proof secure element for consumers' confidential credentials and payment data and is a crucial part of enabling NFC transactions.
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They are examining how arcane, confidential, but presumably routine data may move company stocks.
You should require employees who have access to customer lists, strategic plans, pricing information, financial data and other confidential business information to sign confidentiality agreements that restrict their use of such information during their employment and after.
The recordings will be kept confidential and once the devices' data are analyzed, any conversations on the recordings will be deleted.
Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two CCBN board seats to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service, and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN.
Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two seats on CCBN's board to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN.
None of the confidential witnesses had access to internal accounting data, the company says.
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The data were supposed to remain confidential, but cynics say inventive malpractice lawyers eventually would get their hands on the information.
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