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25 Nov 2008
Facebook has won a $873m judgment against a Canadian sued for spamming users of the social networking site with "sexually explicit" messages after hacking into the profiles of its members.
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25 Nov 2008
The Government has rejected calls for a law that would require significant data security breaches to be notified to the country's privacy regulator. It said that notification to the Information Commissioner should be a matter of good practice, not law....
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25 Nov 2008
The Information Commissioner will be able to perform spot-checks on government departments and public sector bodies to make sure they are complying with the Data Protection Act under new plans announced by the Government yesterday.
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25 Nov 2008
The powers of Government to share data will be increased under new laws announced yesterday. Legislation will introduce a fast-track procedure to allow data sharing whenever "a robust case" can be made for sharing, said a Ministry of Justice report.
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20 Nov 2008
One of the world's biggest law firms is suing a small Chicago-based website for naming the firm and linking to two of its associates' biographies. A judge rejected an attempt to have the case thrown out last week.
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19 Nov 2008
A list of members of the British National Party (BNP) has been published online, including thousands of names, addresses and email addresses. The party claims that the security breach was likely to be a deliberate act of 'political malevolence'.
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18 Nov 2008
The European Commission has launched a consultation on how it can strengthen the European Union's response to computer attacks. The Commission is canvassing views ahead of a debate early next year about an EU-wide co-ordination of computer security.
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18 Nov 2008
Visa has introduced a computerised credit card which it hopes will help banks battle fraud. The innovation could force other card issuers and banks to implement similar technology, one data protection expert has said.
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17 Nov 2008
Public authorities who want to keep information secret to protect the commercial interests of companies they work with must explain exactly what damage will be done by disclosure, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.
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13 Nov 2008
The European Union and the US should only be allowed to share individuals' personal data in criminal cases if people can take the authorities to court when they get it wrong, one of Europe's top privacy officials has said.
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