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German telephone giant Deutsche Telekom said Friday it would tighten up data-privacy rules and appoint a seventh board member in charge of corporate compliance and legal issues.

AUSTIN Pizza parties, field trips and other rewards including cash for students who pass the TAKS may be in violation of federal privacy laws for students, the state's education chief has warned.

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers.

The influential privacy organization Center for Digital Democracy has asked authorities in New York and California to investigate ad targeting on MySpace and Facebook.

Responding to Judah Hamer's defense of the recently adopted Library Privacy Act, S.220 , I must state that his arguments in favor of the law ignore a fundamental right of all adults: the right to demand and ...

A federal panel of policymakers and scientific experts on Tuesday urged a government-wide evaluation of programs that sift through databases looking for clues on terrorism, to determine whether the programs are ...

Health care organizations that operate in California have two more good reasons to be sure that they comply with the data security and privacy requirements of the federal HIPAA law.

Motorsport boss Max Mosley plans to challenge the UK's privacy laws in the European Court of Human Rights, he said.

Most Americans are concerned about their internet privacy and many are taking steps to limit the information that is being collected and shared about them online, according to a poll from Consumer Reports , ...

A reported decision by Delta Air Lines to block "inappropriate" Web sites from its planned in-flight Wi-Fi service could be just the tip of the iceberg for airlines' control of Internet use.

The 'Offshore' IT services market has grown extraordinarily fast in the global market in the past few years.

The Conference, taking place from 27th-29th October 2008 at ExCeL London, UK, is set to bring together international industry experts, senior executives, security professionals, developers, architects and ...

In China, nothing is private. As if we needed more proof, a Canadian group has spotted a bank of unsecured servers containing what appear to be filtered-out information from Skype messages that might run afoul ...

BERLIN : For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with U.S. Internet search engines, trying to get them to conform to European restrictions on the storage of personal information ...

An online petition has been set up to try and persuade the government to halt the controversial Phorm online advertising programme.

FIA President Max Mosley has decided to continue his campaign to increase privacy laws by taking his spanking case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

One of the founders of MySpace says it may be a decade before targeted advertisements are sent to people's mobile phones based on their network of online friends and their purchasing history.

No doubt about it, the innocence is gone. Since 9/11, airlines have tightened safeguards, barricades have gone up around government buildings and local agencies have taken on a slew of new security ...

A University of Iowa law professor is part of a team asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a privacy rights precedent when the court convenes for its new term next week.