A diverse group of expert volunteers including executives from US financial institutions, legal firms, software suppliers and law enforcement agencies, have come together to form a group that aims to show how ID data breaches can best be stopped. The FBI, computer products distributor Avnet and SSL certificate authority GoDaddy.com are a few of the…
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Prominent Iranian journalist implicates Nokia in his arrest
Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent journalist and former senior Culture Ministry official, has told his family in a short phone call from prison that several of his ribs were broken during his arrest in northern Iran on July 4 in the postelection crackdown. The 56-year-old Saharkhiz has told his family the authorities traced him through his…
Taspo data not kept private
The Tobacco Institute of Japan, the industry body of tobacco manufacturers, has turned over vending machine logs on individuals’ cigarette purchases and their personal information to prosecutors for investigative purposes, informed sources said. The logs showing the use of taspo smart cards included records of when and at which vending machines the smokers bought cigarettes,…
Google flames Tory MP Davis on privacy claims
Google had better hope former Tory shadow minister David Davis doesn’t return to a senior role in a future Conservative government. Its chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has given Davis a tongue-lashing for opposing Google Health and criticising Google’s privacy record. Davis was writing in The Sunday Times in opposition to Tories’ wish to give…