Tag: personal data
The Digital Takeover.
As everything we associate ourselves with moves into the Cloud our physical stockpile of possessions begins to shrink. The days of people showing off their huge CD collections sitting in their living rooms are coming to an end. Movies once thought to be too large to send over the internet are now being regularly streamed. We are now reaching a point whereby everything we own falls into a digital abyss …
McDonalds customers exposed after security breach at mail provider
Data relating to customers of the McDonald’s fast food franchise has been leaked, after a failure of the security at the company which provides the email service to the firm. The data in question was gathered by McDonald’s from its website and was subsequently accessed illicitly by a third party, according to a statement from the company. The data included the names, addresses, contact numbers, genders and D.O.Bs of many …
Celebs suffer data loss after theft of laptops
Public attention has been turned onto the potential damage that can be caused by the theft of a portable computer, after two celebrities became victims of this crime, losing significant personal data in the process. Hollywood star Keira Knightly was one of the high profile targets who had reported two laptops taken during a break-in, according to police. Obviously the data stored on these devices could be of significant value …
Government seeking greater data privacy assurances for UK citizens
UK authorities are seeking to make it much easier for the average citizen to remove private details and personal data which has been unnecessarily exposed online. Culture minister Ed Vaizey wants to make sure that everyone has the powers to demand that internet service providers erase or properly secure data which is being made publicly available in a manner which is seen as being in violation of basic rights to …
NHS to hand control of private data over to patients
In a radical new initiative, the government could completely alter the way in which data relating to NHS patients is controlled, giving individual citizens the right to monitor and limit access to their own information, rather than leaving it in the direct care of the health service. This news has been made public as part of a white paper published with the aim of creating a revolutionary new way of …
