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Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.
A number of UK banks have been found to be in breach of the country's Data Protection Act (DPA) following complaints about the disposal of customer information.
A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast library collection over the Internet.
Microsoft has amended the privacy policy for its Windows Media Player after a noted computer security expert warned that the software keeps track of the DVD titles people watch.
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A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.
New privacy-enhancing controls in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 can be rendered useless by a long-known security flaw in Windows Media Player, according to a noted security expert.
Privacy advocates fear that a Web monitoring tool that is under development may lead to more covert surveillance.
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Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
Microsoft has disclosed technical information vital to allowing third-party developers create software that works well with Windows.
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