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OCTA to post salary info online

August 10, 2010

The Orange County Transportation Authority will post information about employee salaries and benefits on its website.

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Octopus exec resigns over data breach

August 9, 2010

Prudence Chan, CEO of Octopus Holdings, has resigned after admitting that the smart card payment company sold private customer data to six companies.

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Australian police use smart cards to track riders

July 30, 2010

Brisbane (QLD) police are using the data from TransLink’s Go Card to track criminal suspects and potential witnesses

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Octopus Holdings sold customer data

July 30, 2010

Hong Kong’s Octopus Holdings, Ltd., which provides e-payment services, received HK$44 million for selling personal data from 1.97 million customers to six companies.

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Google’s Street View troubles continue

June 18, 2010

The fallout from Google’s data-collection practices continues. French authorities investigated the data, and U.S. attorneys general are considering action.

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Florida employee posts social media guidelines

June 11, 2010

Tired of answering basic questions about social media, a Florida state employee developed a toolkit for her state colleagues.

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Google will share data with European governments

June 6, 2010

Google will comply with requests from European regulators to turn over the personal data that its Street View vehicles collected inadvertently.

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Google’s European troubles continue

May 19, 2010

A German regulator has asked Google to turn over one of the hard drives used to store personal data mistakenly collected in that country by its Street View camera cars.

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Google mapping cars collected personal data by mistake

May 18, 2010

Google’s mapping cars, which photographed locations for the Street View application, “inadvertently” collected something more — personal information that people sent over unencrypted wireless networks. Since 2006, cars collected fragments of data in passing, as Google documented the location of wireless networks in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Information transmitted over password-protected WiFi networks [...]

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New Facebook feature may pose problem for agencies

April 29, 2010

Facebook’s latest feature — the Like button — may create privacy problems for federal agencies.

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