Data Retention
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Small businesses in S'pore prone to data loss
News Singapore's smaller companies put critical information at risk as they lack effective systems and best practices to prevent and recover from data loss, according to survey.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Data Management, Security Management, Security, Data Loss, Data Management, Kroll Ontrack Inc., data retention, IT manager, Security Management
IBM tool targets data compliance
News Big Blue, eager to cash in on recent data-handling rules, is set to unveil a device that aims to help clients comply with regulations.
ISP snooping gaining support in U.S.
News States getting behind idea of requiring records to be kept of customers' online activities for police access.
Tags: Service level management
Yahoo to shut down Xoopit for Gmail users
News Company announces plans to make the media file aggregation service inaccessible to Gmail users next month, as it focuses on Xoopit development for Yahoo Mail.
Tags: Business applications, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Browser Add-on, Business applications, Xoopit, Web Browser, data retention, Server, Mozilla Firefox
Study: eBay, Yahoo among most trusted companies
News However, trusted is not the same as trustworthy, Electronic Frontier Foundation points out in criticizing latest study.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Verizon Communications Inc., eBay Inc., data retention, Survey, Privacy, TRUSTe, Facebook, brand
US$39M cost of tracking e-mail and phone calls
News U.K. Home Office reveals multimillion-pound cost of monitoring kingdom's communications.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Government, data retention, communications service provider, Internet Service, phone, e-mail, electronic communication, Internet Service Provider
Yahoo to anonymize user data after 90 days
News Clearly, the race is on to the bottom on data retention policies. In particular, Google and Yahoo have been playing a game of privacy leapfrog.
Tags: Web sites, Internet advertising, Search, Data security, Security, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., data retention, User Data, Advertisement
UK Internet data-retention law comes into force
News From this week, Internet service providers will be obliged to retain details of Internet communications, including e-mail, for 12 months.
Tags: Privacy, Data, Mobile, data retention, e-mail, telephony, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet, monitor
UK to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
News The U.K. government's proposed Interception Modernisation Programme would enforce tracking and retention of all U.K. citizens' Web communications, including IM conversations.
Tags: Privacy, Mobile platforms/communications, MySpace, Traffic Data, data retention, Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo, Government, Internet Service, IMP
Google won't run all Wave servers
News Company clarifies new real-time communications platform will be federated, so anyone will be able to run their own Wave server.
Tags: E-mail servers, Servers, Google Inc., data retention, Server, e-mail, e-mail server, auditing, Internet, health care
UK govt Web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News Traffic-switching organization, London Internet Exchange, says proposals to monitor all Web communications are technologically impractical.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Network security, data retention, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Government, e-mail, monitoring, Internet
Microsoft offers to cut search-data retention time
News In response to pressure from the European Union, company says it will cut its search-data retention period from 18 months to six--but only if other search companies follow suit.
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Data, Google Inc., data retention, European Union, Advertisement, search engine company, Search Result, data protection, European Commission
Kingston taps high-density chips for 256GB stick
News It starts selling USB stick that can hold the same amount of data as 365 CDs.
Tags: Storage, Kingston Technology Corp., data retention, Chip, USB Flash Drive, Storage, memory capacity, host system, VAT, flash memory
Facebook attacks UK govt Web-monitoring plans
News Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly says government proposals to track all social-networking traffic data would be unnecessary, impractical and possibly bad for business.
Tags: Privacy, Traffic Data, Attack, Bebo, Facebook, IM, monitoring, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet
Data headache looms for mobile operators
News Communications service providers and operators could face an "onerous burden" once various governments implement the European Union data retention laws.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management
