They could not have guessed where that hunch would lead: to a dustup over computer privacy, a personal injury lawsuit, a government investigation and a very embarrassed public company.
Scotland Yard has arrested a man as part of an investigation into computer hacking and privacy breaches.
The computer and technology company, which Mr. Palmisano ran from 2002 to the end of 2011, is considered well versed in high-level computer security and privacy matters.
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Meanwhile, an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches - Operation Tuleta - has led to 19 arrests.
Operation Weeting is an inquiry into alleged phone hacking, while Operation Tuleta is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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Operation Elveden is running alongside Operation Weeting, the investigation into allegations of phone hacking, and Operation Tuleta, which is looking at computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
Operation Elveden is running alongside Operation Weeting, an inquiry into alleged phone hacking, and Operation Tuleta, which is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
Operation Elveden is running alongside Operation Weeting, the Met Police inquiry into phone hacking, and Operation Tuleta, which is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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Operation Elveden is running alongside Operation Weeting, the Met Police inquiry into alleged phone hacking, and Operation Tuleta, which is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
Operation Weeting is being run alongside two other Scotland Yard investigations: Operation Elveden, an inquiry into allegations of illegal payments to public officials, and Operation Tuleta into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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The agency plans to hold public hearings across the U.S. in the next two months on privacy and computer security issues before officials make a final decision on the fate of the Web site, Callahan said.
Hambre asserted the great threat to citizen privacy in the computer age is not from government, but from criminals and certain highly-invasive private sector businesses.
That privacy violation, the lawsuit alleges, breaches the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, among other statutes.
As one of my computer science friends put it, privacy through obscurity is a poor model.
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Carter told hundreds of industry executives and military officials at the conference that protecting the country's privately-controlled computer networks raised myriad antitrust and privacy questions that needed to be addressed more quickly.
From the privacy of one's computer, virtually the entire world can be one's audience.
Matt Blaze, a privacy-focused professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania says the inattention is typical of the industry.
Boone alleges that Michael is a cyberbully and has sued him for defamation, libel, invasion of privacy, harmful access by computer, and extortion.
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Narayanan, who was not involved in the lawsuit, currently works developing techniques that will protect privacy while allowing the sorts of computer research Netflix was interested in.
If there are any shocks, such as finding out that Facebook tracks your use of some of the programs on your computer, you can adjust them via the privacy settings.
David Sherborne, representing Ms McDonagh, told Mr Justice Vos that in June 2012, officers from Operation Tuleta - Scotland Yard's investigation into privacy breaches including the alleged hacking of computer and mobile phones - had "obtained evidence" that the Sun had accessed her text messages from about October 2010.
The family has leveled five counts against him: invasion of privacy, defamation, libel, harmful access by computer, and extortion.
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Despite some initial concerns about privacy, most Gmail users are savvy enough to know that it is the computer software, not a real person, which is reading their e-mails.
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Another big chain of dealers, Group 1, has also told its members not to use TrueCar, saying it had privacy worries over the website's requirement that it have access to showrooms' computer systems so as to verify sales.
He became interested in computer security in particular during his undergraduate studies, and was then drawn to the specialised field of privacy.
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