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South Africa privacy law impacts mobile phone subscriber numbers

Legislation in South Africa designed to track mobile phone users involved in the commissioning of a crime has had a negative impact on mobile penetration figures. Vodacom and MTN have said they have suffered subscriber …

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Asia »

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

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 …

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UK: Recent ICO Enforcement cases – Data Protection Act (DPA)

15 June 2010
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Trust has signed a formal Undertaking after an excel spreadsheet, containing 917 patients’ pathology results, was emailed via an unsecure address to another department. The spreadsheet was not password …

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North America »

Secretary Sebelius Announces Final Rules To Support ‘Meaningful Use’ of Electronic Health Records

Press Release from HHS (July 13, 2010):

WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced final rules to help improve Americans’ health, increase safety and reduce health care costs through …

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Oceania »

AU: Gov’t wants ISP’s to record browsing history

Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscribers private web browsing history for law enforcement to examine when requested, a move which has been widely criticised by …

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Laptop with Belize birth certificate information stolen

Police are investigating the theft of a laptop that they fear could result in cases of identity theft. That’s because the stolen computer belongs to the Government of Belize and was issued to the head …

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