Are consumer protections a form of economic incentive, as well as a protection of personal data information for the EU?
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Hackers have been after passwords, bank account data and other personal information used for identity theft or years, but now cyber criminals appear to have a new target: airline miles.
The goal of Data Privacy Day is to educate people and companies on the vulnerability of personal data, including information shared on social networks, financial data and anything stored on cloud services.
And on February 25th, Bank of America revealed that it lost data tapes that contain personal information on over 1m government employees, including some Senators.
"Google claims it does not collect personal data but doesn't say who decides what information is 'personal', " she said.
Phishing is where criminals masquerade as a legitimate business or Web site and trick victims into revealing passwords, credit card information and other personal data.
Chatter is a cloud-based social collaboration application through which enterprise users can create profiles with professional information like personal contact data, area of expertise, and work history.
The ICO agreed it was "unlikely" that the data contained significant amounts of personal information but said it was wrong for Google to have collected and stored the information.
He describes how they would spy on the players, collecting their personal data and compiling information about their habits to try and trick them into spending even more than they already were.
"It is deeply worrying that after a number of major data losses and the publication of two government reports on high profile breaches of the Data Protection Act, more personal information has been reported lost, " he said.
It compares his responses with information obtained from protected repositories of personal data maintained by credit reporting companies affiliated with the bank, and it accesses this information in real time, making no permanent record of it at the bank.
In the process of gathering somewhat innocent behavior data, mobile wallet projects will also gather card numbers, personal identities, spending data and other sensitive information.
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But Schumer said that if the data were hacked it could compromise personal information on shoppers' phones.
Once the breach was identified, the forces said G4S appointed an information assurance professional to ensure that all information relating to the personal data was deleted from their hard drives and records, and that no hard copies existed.
Data including emails, some passwords and other personal information on 51, 500 users of SonyPictures.com.
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Someone whose personal information is taken in a data breach is nearly 10 times more likely to fall prey to ID thieves.
Once the device is infected, malware can collect and send data from the device, such as location information, personal information and login credentials, to untrusted third parties.
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Mr. ARMSTRONG: Well, you know, the past couple of years have been really rough as it relates to the sensitivity of our credit card information, our personal privacy, our data.
Other companies with wallet initiatives try to gain ownership of your personal data so they can sell the information or merchandise it in various ways to online markets and others, Gross says.
For example, the same notifications sent to the media as required under the HITECH Act (a personal information protection act for healthcare data) may or may not be required by state regulations, depending on the states and the specifics of your incident.
At an emotional level, you will know and react when a company has treated your personal information like random items of data they can toss back at you at will, with all the tenderness and sensitivity of a recorded message or an automatic response.
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The Justice Committee found that a proposed new EU regulation would remove the information commissioner's funding for data protection work through the notification fee payable to him by all those who process personal information.
This in itself bad enough - our most personal information stored in labs and state data vaults.
In this particular case, the customer's data was compromised by a person who had acquired personal information about the customer.
Smartphone apps often lack privacy policies and don't offer as much information and control over their use of personal data.
He also stresses that the company provides advertisers with data only in aggregated form so that individuals' personal information is not divulged to anyone.
Privacy watchdogs this week spurred the FTC to take a close look at online advertising company DoubleClick (DCLK) and its policy of merging data about the online habits of consumers with such personal information as names and post addresses.
Only anonymous data will be made available - there will be no personal information included.
He wanted to find a way to get personal travel information and traffic and flight delay data automatically delivered.
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Among the information captured in passing were also large quantities of personal data of different quality: for example, e-mails, passwords, photos and chat protocols.
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