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Government Connect : What you need to know

Desire Athow — Mon, 17 Nov 2008

Many UK Local Authorities and Government Departments planning to use Government Connect are currently investigating the need to record, log, store and retrieve network, file and user based logs on their networks

280 Million People Affected By Data Losses Worldwide

Desire Athow — Sat, 08 Nov 2008

A study carried out by KPMG shows that data on more than 280 million people worldwide has been lost in the past three years due to data breaches and lax security

Giant Databases, A Risk for Millions Of UK Citizens, Says Information Commissioner

Desire Athow — Wed, 29 Oct 2008

Nearly 280 serious data breaches have been recorded by the authority in charge of making sure individuals' data is protected and to make it worse, less than a quarter of that number were down to stolen devices

Mapping out new relationships in learning and collaboration

Uwe Richter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008

Information is the lifeblood of business, the economy and most aspects of our society, from healthcare to legal affairs and scientific investigation to the ‘chat by the coffee machine’

Data protection officials to lobby for new child-protecting laws

Team Outlaw — Wed, 22 Oct 2008

Data protection authorities from all over the world have agreed to call for legislation specifically limiting the collection and use of children's personal data

Advocate General rejects Ireland's data retention objections

Team Outlaw — Tue, 21 Oct 2008

The European Union's Data Retention Directive was not procedurally flawed and should not be repealed, an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Ireland's argument that the law was wrongly adopted has been rejecte

Cheap Keyboards Vulnerable To Wireless Data Sniffing

Desire Athow — Tue, 21 Oct 2008

Swiss researchers have found out that keystrokes can be recorded wirelessly even when a wired keyboard is used by tracking its electromagnetic signature

Break free from information overload and soar to new heights

Uwe Richter — Tue, 21 Oct 2008

There is an embarrassment of riches today when it comes to the sheer amount of information that’s available to you. So how do you harness the wealth of data, web pages and other input that comes your way?

Up to 2 million Affected by UK Army Hard Drive Loss

Desire Athow — Mon, 13 Oct 2008

The data loss that hit the MoD which we reported on Friday 10th could potentially affect three times more people than previously thought with up to 2 million caught in the scandal

MoD Hard Disk With Details Of 100,000 Army Personnel Goes Missing

Desire Athow — Fri, 10 Oct 2008

An external hard disk drive containing the details of 100,000 Ministry of Defence Staff has disappeared from a secure location from Hook, Hampshire in the latest and potentially most devastating data lost to date