The tool attacks the routing layer, affecting protocols like Mint Route and MultiHopLQI to collect, redirect or delete data.
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Users can choose to delete data after a set period of time, or pass it on to specific people.
London, England (CNN) -- Google agreed Friday to delete data it inadvertently collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks when compiling its Street View mapping service in Britain, authorities said.
Last year, the agency forced online advertising company Chitika Inc. to delete data it had collected from people who tried to opt-out but were unaware that Chitika's opt-out expired after 10 days.
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Awareness Technologies, which offers a program called Laptop Cop, tracks exactly what a person in possession of a laptop is doing and allows customers to retrieve and delete data from the device remotely.
The price of storage continues to decline significantly, up to 30-40 percent per year, making it more cost effective to add capacity than to spend the valuable time and effort required to find and delete data.
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In a talk at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona Thursday, Greek researcher Thanassis Giannetsos plans to present a new software tool that he and two colleagues have written that they say would allow a malicious hacker to penetrate a sensor network and change or delete data at will.
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At the time, Google apologized for its mistake and said it would delete the data it collected.
On Friday, Google agreed to delete that data as soon as possible, the company and the ICO said.
In addition to agreeing to delete the data, Google signed a commitment to improve data handling, the ICO said.
The US government said Carpathia could delete the data, provided enough had been done to try to return the information to users.
The bug allows malicious software to reset a Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete any data on it.
The change comes more than two years after breaking from other search engines like Google by promising to delete such data promptly.
Google later said the action had been "inadvertent", but it was not helped by the fact that it subsequently failed to delete the data gathered as promised.
What's neat is that users can manually disable a connection with these apps anytime they want, and when they do, these third-party developers are required to delete user data from their servers.
There is no U.S. law, as there is in Europe, requiring companies to allow people to view or delete their personal data on file at an institution.
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The defense, meanwhile, has countered with an argument that the aforementioned court order wasn't a valid warrant, because it allowed the feds to delete all collected data, in lieu of submitting them to the court.
The failure to comply with a promise to delete all the data was notified to Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which said the fact that the data still existed appeared to breach an undertaking signed by Google in November 2010.
Google said it was working with all the investigators and offering to delete all the sensitive data.
And, they let users download, correct, and delete much of the data the company is holding about them.
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Mr Afzal adds that ISPs often delete e-mail data after 30 days.
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Google said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010.
As well as agreeing to delete all the harvested data, Google has also been required to launch an employee training program about privacy and data use which it must continue for at least ten years.
At the same time as being notified of the fine, Google was also instructed to delete completely the illegally captured data.
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Users had complained that it appeared Facebook was claiming ownership of their data - even if they delete their accounts.
They noted that although it was not illegal for the firm to have copied over data belonging to non-users, the problem was that it did not delete the information after running the friend-identification check.
The FTC said Google promised it had not and would not use the payload data -- though unlike the case in Britain, Google did not promise to delete the information.
Almost all of the machines ran outdated software with critical security vulnerabilities, and 98% contained data that the company or individual who set up the machine for users had intended to delete but could still be extracted from the machine.
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