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NHS trust spunks 67m on e-patient records, Twitter, Facebook
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-03 09:01
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS trust is planning to invest £67m in an information management and technology (IM&T) strategy over the next five years.
A spokeswoman for the trust told Guardian Government Computing that the board in approving the plan noted "that where capital funding is required to progress the workstreams, business cases would be developed to support investment decisions".
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Mobile Privacy Standards to Be Discussed at Government Meetings
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-07-02 02:53
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is set to host the first of several meetings seeking input for its effort to develop new codes of conduct for handling private consumer date on the Internet and mobile networks.
The meeting, scheduled for July 12 at the U.S. Department of Commerce building in Washington D.C., is open to all and will focus primarily on mobile application privacy.
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FTC sues Wyndham Hotels after three credit card breaches
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-06-27 06:14
The Federal Trade Commission is suing a major hotel chain and its subsidiaries for allegedly failing to secure the financial information of its guests, which led to fraudulent charges of more than $10 million and the siphoning out of hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers.
The complaint (PDF), announced Tuesday, centers on the fact that New Jersey-based Wyndham Worldwide Corp. experienced three data breaches in under three years. In each case, the intruders made off with financial information by breaching the company's Phoenix data center.
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Washington's 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Secrets From You
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-06-20 12:47
The government’s vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can’t know what those secrets are.
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NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-06-19 00:21
The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so.
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