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Facebook given 3 months to comply with French privacy act
2016-02-09 09:24:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) French data protection authority Cnil has issued formal notice to Facebook to come into line with the country's Data Protection Act within 3 months or face a potential penalty. The Cnil objects to several ways in which the social networking pioneer collects personal data, including information about internet users who do not have a Facebook account. Facebook offers no tools to allow users to prevent the compilation and transfer to third parties of user-provided information, which 'violates their fundamental rights and interests, including their right to respect for private life.'
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VIDEO: What is the the Privacy Shield?
2016-02-03 10:38:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Tanya Beckett explains changes to the way personal data is transferred between the US and European Union.
EU, US agree new 'privacy shield' for data transfers
2016-02-02 17:49:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Union and the US have agreed on a new framework for protecting the privacy of personal data passed by companies between the two territories, the European Commission announced. To be known as the EU-US Privacy Shield, the agreement comes on the deadline of 02 February set by EU privacy regulators to reach an agreement. The new arrangement will provide stronger obligations on companies in the US to protect the personal data of Europeans and stronger monitoring and enforcement by the US Department of Commerce and Federal Trade Commission, including through increased cooperation with EU data protection authorities. The US has committed to ensuring that access for American authorities to personal data transferred from the EU will be subject to clear conditions, limitations and oversight, preventing generalised access, the EC sai. Europeans will have the possibility to raise any enquiry or complaint in this context with a dedicated new ombudsperson.
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People value their online privacy - except when it comes to free Wi-Fi
2016-01-26 05:20:19| Wireless - Topix.net
For many years, New York City has been developing a "free" public Wi-Fi project. Called LinkNYC, it is an ambitious effort to bring wireless Internet access to all of the city's residents.
Telstra privacy breach leaves customer's voicemail exposed
2016-01-22 22:34:05| Telecom - Topix.net
When it was time to upgrade to the latest iPhone, Richard Thornton did what he had done many times before. He wiped his old iPhone 5 with a factory reset, removed the SIM card, sold it second hand to a private buyer, and put his SIM in a freshly purchased iPhone 6. And then something "scary" happened.
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