For increased data protection of backed-up files, the software also features an AES 256-bit government-grade encryption.
The country's data chief called it "one of the biggest known data protection violations in history".
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Deputy Sean Power has resigned as Jersey's housing minister after breaching data protection laws.
The Information Commissioner's Office is making inquiries into the alleged breach of the Data Protection Act.
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And, preserving that consumer trust is where consumer data protection becomes essential to the online economy.
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The Data Protection Act is there to protect people from land-grabs such as this.
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Companies have to navigate 27 sometimes contradictory data protection rules across the 27 European Union countries.
Personal data protection therefore plays a central role in the Digital Agenda for Europe.
The project drew criticism from privacy campaigners worried it could breach data protection laws.
This led to objections from privacy organisations, members of Congress and European data protection authorities.
Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission released the findings of its investigation into the company.
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In Germany, data protection officials go to schools and tell kids to sign up under pseudonyms.
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By doing this, Google violates European data protection law, according to a German data protection watchdog.
Data protection regulators from 30 European countries have pushed search-engine operators including Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo!
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The Toughbook C1 also features a shock-mounted, flex-connect 250GB hard drive with quick-release for enhanced data protection.
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In iOS 6, files that are protected via Data Protection cannot be used with iCloud Storage APIs.
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Companies must inform the data protection authorities and the people affected right away, preferably within 24 hours.
Europe v Facebook is unhappy about "half-hearted solutions" following an audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
It said the data sent went "over and above" what was required, breaching the Data Protection Act 1998.
"For fraudsters, every day is Cyber Monday, " says Sean Brady, director of RSA's identity and data protection group.
Rights of access, rectification and erasure all exist under our current rules, the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive.
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Sooner or later, the policies motivating the EU Data Protection Directive will prove to be counter-productive and regressive.
"India is only paying lip service to data protection, " the Data Protection lawyer Pavan Duggal told BBC News.
Hadoop does not provide data protection in the form of snapshots and mirrors required features for comparable systems.
The deletion of the data has been confirmed to the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
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More challenging is increasing data protection amid the surge in malicious attacks coming from inside and outside the organization.
The letters will go via their head teachers because of concerns about data protection, Universities Minister David Willetts said.
It also said the collecting of the details violated the Data Protection Act.
Six European data protection agencies are contemplating legal action over Google's privacy policy.
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