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Vigilance not always enough to protect identity
Posted on November 22nd, 2010 No commentsPreventing identity theft goes beyond a person protecting his or her own information. Anyone who deals with the personal data of other people – whether customers, employees or even their own children – needs to be aware that how they handle that information can have dire consequences – both for the business and the individuals involved.
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Google Fired Worker After Data Breach
Posted on September 24th, 2010 No commentsGoogle Inc., which has been battling government regulators over its collection of personal data, said it fired a software engineer following a breach of its customers' private information.
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Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 No commentsComputerworld offers tips to holiday shoppers looking to expose their personal data to online thieves.
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Soldiers’ Data Still Being Downloaded Overseas, Firm Says
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 No commentsThe personal data of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers — including those in the Special Forces — continue to be downloaded by unauthorized computer users in countries such as China and Pakistan, despite Army assurances that it would try to fix the problem, according to a private firm that monitors cybersecurity.
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Schumer says national standards needed to fight identity theft
Posted on September 17th, 2009 No commentsIn the wake of the discovery of the largest identity theft scheme in history today U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that identity thefts across Upstate New York have risen by almost 25% in the last year alone.
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Sen. Schumer Pushing Legislation To Increase Identity Theft Penalties
Posted on September 17th, 2009 No commentsThe Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., would address the fundamental ways that information gets into the hands of evildoers and penalize companies who are lax in notifying people that their information has been compromised.
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Leahy trying again with data breach bill
Posted on July 24th, 2009 No commentsSenate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has reintroduced a data breach bill that would set tougher rules for government agencies and private sector firms regarding consumers’ personal information. This will be the third time around the block for the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, which has cleared the Judiciary Committee, but never come to a vote on the Senate floor.
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DHS: More work needed on identity theft
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 No commentsGAO report highlights continuing vulnerabilities of personal data on government databases. Last week DHS Secretary Napolitano spoke at the World Affairs Council Global Education Dinner in Washington, DC about the department’s increasing focus on the issue of cybersecurity.
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P2P bill could regulate browsers, cloud computing | ITworld
Posted on May 6th, 2009 No commentsLegislation aimed at curtailing the inadvertent file sharing of personal data on P2P networks could create new regulations for makers of other software, including Web browsers and cloud computing, groups told a congressional subcommittee.
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Discarded voter registration documents expose 100000 names and Social Security numbers
Posted on May 5th, 2009 No commentsFulton County Board of Registration and Elections data loss incident circa 2009-05-04
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