Hitech News

July 3, 2006

Red Cross laptop with donor information stolen

Filed under: privacy

Yet again, another stolen laptop with confidential information on it is missing in action. A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors — including Social Security numbers and medical information — was stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials said the information was encrypted.
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July 2, 2006

US Congress targets Social Networking websites

Filed under: privacy

As usual, congress has little or no concept of how technology works and they want to add restrictions for providers of social networking sites to indefinately log IP addresses, and later link them to physical addresses
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June 25, 2006

Microsoft to publish its privacy rules

Filed under: privacy

Microsoft plans in August to publicly release the privacy rules its employees have to follow when developing products.
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June 20, 2006

Equifax laptop with employee data stolen

Filed under: privacy

More on privacy issues - Another laptop with confidential records was stolen, from credit monitoring agency, Equifax.
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