Privacy

HEI Hospitality, owner and operator of upscale hotels operating under the Marriott, Sheraton, Westin and other monikers, has sent letters informing some 3,400 customers that their credit card data may have been compromised.

The warning stems from an intrusion into point of sale systems at several HEI properties earlier this year, which could have allowed card holder data being to be illegally accessed, the company said in the letter.

Have you ever received promotional calls by companies you have never heard of? Or are you sure that you have never agree to give your phone number to these companies? Customer database is the answers to these questions. Companies acquire your information by buying the database.

Personal information values especially in market-driven economy. Who buy what kinds of products, formulates the marketing and promotion strategies of the companies. A list of personal date do value.

Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.

In September, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number.

Starting on 1st November, the German government is to roll out a new national identity card that is billed as the most advanced of its kind. The contactless smartcard can be used as a travel document, enables transactions such as online banking, airline passenger check-in and tax declaration, and gives German citizens control over which service providers can access ID card data.

Around 60 million of the new ID cards, which contain fingerprint scans and a six-digit PIN digital signature, will be introduced for all citizens aged 16 and over over the next 10 years.

Despite being under constant assault from hackers around the globe, U.S. military and government cybersecurity efforts will not compromise individual civil liberties or unnecessarily invade citizens' privacy, according to Gen. Keith Alexander, the National Security Agency's director told attendees at the O'Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit.

The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has stuck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive information was found lying in the street.

The unsecured data on the drive related to training information on coping with riots, violent suspects, and public disorder. According to the Daily Star, the red top newspaper to which the drive was handed in by a passer-by, some of the information has bearing on terrorism training, including blast control, firearms handling and strategies for dealing with petrol and bomb attacks.

he increasing number of Facebook users in Nepal is a threat to cyber security, the Office of Certification and Controller said on Monday.

Certification Controller, Rajan Raj Pant, citing the number of Facebook users in Nepal to be almost 600,000, said that Facebook users are vulnerable to privacy & identity-theft, as hackers develop friendship with Internet users by the help of such social networking sites.

The pro-copyright lobby group behind the Accidental Pirate website has changed a legal clause that allowed it to disclose the personal information of users to any third party.

Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.

Investigators with Ultrascan, a company that investigates credit card fraud and other kinds of online crime, were doing research on forums and systems used to sell credit card numbers, said Frank Engelsman of Ultrascan.

A phone hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according to the New York Times.