In total, 12 recommendations were outlined in a letter signed by 24 of the EU's 27 data regulators, following a nine-month investigation into Google's data collection practices.
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The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the purpose of National Security Letters (NSL) to allow government agencies to use them to request any data relevant to an investigation of terrorism or an intelligence activity without court oversight.
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Several European data privacy regulators have also launched an investigation into Google's practices, alleging the company is creating a data goldmine at the expense of unwitting users.
An investigation concluded that data from computer simulations and wind-tunnel tests had been misinterpreted.
Google commissioned a third-party investigation of its data collection.
British taxpayers with a bank account in Liechtenstein whose details were sold to HMRC will not be protected from investigation because the data in question was stolen, lawyers said today.
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Representatives for the railroad and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, its parent, didn't answer questions about the age of the rails at the site of the accident or the most recent inspection data, citing the NTSB investigation.
The newspaper reported Monday that a GAO investigation had found data indicating that an unauthorized person had gained access to computers at two overseas posts, causing the department to shut down at least part of one of its international computer systems.
"However, it appears that these processes have not been followed in this case and the investigation is focusing on data protection issues and the unlawful disclosure of confidential information, " she added.
And a comparison of the 72 American cities with a population over 250, 000, using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, reveals that some places are definitely more murderous than others.
It was hacked in May, exposing some of its records, leading to an investigation by officials responsible for data law compliance.
The Bureau of Investigation and Analysis said the data indicated that Flight 447 crashed because the aircraft's speed sensors gave invalid readings.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its probe of Electronic Data Systems Corp. to a formal investigation, the computer services company said on Friday.
Although it said that there was some evidence to warrant further investigation of offences under the Data Protection Act, the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and the Communications Act 2003, it added that this would not take place as any potential prosecution would not be in the public interest.
Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission released the findings of its investigation into the company.
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It follows a nine-month investigation into the company's data collection practices.
It emerged that Phoenix director Peter Beale had installed "Evidence Eliminator" software on his computer, despite being aware government inspectors intended to review data on his PC as part of the investigation.
Professor Jones, who has stepped down from the unit pending an investigation, told MPs that the data was freely available, however he was criticised by MPs for not publishing full details of the methodology used to collate the data.
The privately-held Vatican bank, Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), located inside Vatican City, has been at the centre of several financial scandals in recent years, and has been under investigation since 2010 for allegedly omitting data in wire transfers from an Italian account.
Affected organizations play a leading role in every investigation because it is their systems and data that are being stolen or leveraged.
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One third party set of data verifying this comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the form of firearm background checks, which the FBI reports on a monthly basis.
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It takes companies longer to realize they've been the victim of an espionage attacks, he said, and when American companies do they often deal directly with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which doesn't release data on the topic.
In any case, a far more extensive set of audits in FY 2010, involving over 14, 000 agency site visits, resulted in only 1 percent of the cases being referred for further investigation for possible fraud, according to data supplied by USCIS to the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
An investigation at Erasmus found that Poldermans used patient data without written permission, used fictitious data, and submitted two reports to conferences which included knowingly unreliable data.
Officials should be aware that in the past several years insurance companies have begun to market specific computer policies that may provide first and third-party coverage for losses associated with cyber incidents, such as costs for data restoration, crisis response, privacy notification and forensic investigation, as well as defense and indemnification arising out of cyber incidents, and business interruption.
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The investigation will include scrutiny of the flight and voice data recorders, it said.
Strategic data targeting allowed building inspectors to prioritize properties that required immediate investigation and streamline the process for examining complaints.
There should be nine data recorders aboard the first train, which will aid the investigation a great deal if they aren't damaged, Hersman said.
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The "cyber war" started at the beginning of the month when a group claiming to be Saudi Arabian hackers posted the credit card information and other identifying data of thousands of Israelis on line, prompting an international investigation.
It also slowed data flows over closely linked networks and led to a massive police investigation.
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