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20 May 2013
Patients in England are to be allocated a unique barcode that will be used when doctors send on prescriptions to pharmacies, the Government has said.
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20 May 2013
Businesses must be more transparent about the way they collect information about consumers in order to offer personalised prices for goods and services online, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.
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15 May 2013
Businesses should have to ask for individuals' consent before sharing anonymised personal data with third parties, digital rights campaigners have said.
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09 May 2013
Health care bodies can make significant savings to the way they operate by developing 'mHealth' solutions but they must be mindful of their data security responsibilities, an expert has said.
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25 Apr 2013
Technology that recognises individuals' behavioural patterns could be used to verify individuals' identity and enable them to make transactions, Visa has said.
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24 Apr 2013
Companies that can convince consumers of the advantages they would obtain by consenting to the use of their personal data in 'big data' projects are most likely to make a success of those projects, an expert has said.
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23 Apr 2013
Google has been fined €145,000 by a data protection watchdog in Germany over the unauthorised collection of personal data in relation to the company's Street View project.
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22 Apr 2013
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has asked the Home Office to provide it with some information about proposed reforms to UK surveillance laws so as to help the watchdog decide whether the Government department has to disclose the information...
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19 Apr 2013
A draft law that would set new information-sharing arrangements that US businesses would have to comply with in relation to cyber security has been passed by the US House of Representatives.
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11 Apr 2013
A local radio station in England breached the privacy rights of a football supporter when it allowed a chairman of a prominent football club who held a "degree of influence or control" over it to unjustifiably disclose personal information about the fan...
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