Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted …

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The law firm representing a Santa Barbara company that sued China for allegedly pirating its Internet content filtering software says it has been a target of cyber attacks from within China.
Los …

On December 26, 2009, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress passed a landmark new law that contains provisions affecting personal data. The new law will go into effect on July 1, 2010.
The P.R.C. …

BANGALORE: Want to know how much income tax your neighbour pays? Just file an RTI. In a ruling that is bound to have ramifications, specially on big tax-payers , and in a move aimed at curbing …

On January 5, 2010, the Article 29 Working Party published an opinion dated December 1, 2009, finding that Israeli data protection law largely provides an “adequate level of data protection” under the European Union Data …

The Israeli Knesset has voted in favour of a bill for a compulsory biometric database of all citizens.
The Biometrics Database Law passed the Knesset 40 votes in favour to 11 against.
A big row over privacy …

The 31th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, was hosted during November 4th-6th 2009 by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) in Madrid.
During the closed session for Commissioners, the Israeli Law, Information and …

Data protection and information security risk management are top priorities for companies around the world, as the use of technology like computers becomes increasingly prevalent.
This was revealed in an annual survey by Ernst & Young …

Dodging a bullet, Yahoo has convinced a federal district court judge to dismiss a privacy lawsuit brought by Chinese dissidents in exile.
The lawsuit, brought last year by Cunzhu Zheng — one of the leaders of …

IBM’s Privacy Chief, Harriet Pearson, urges a forward-looking approach for Asian regulators when it comes to data privacy.  In an Interview with ZDNet Asia, Pearson admonishes that regulators “wouldn’t you want to leap ahead, anticipate …