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ATLANTA, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) Chief Privacy Officer Anna Slomovic will join a panel of CPOs from other national corporations to delve into the issues surrounding the use of customer data in an age of rapidly evolving and expanding data collection and mining. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060224/CLF037LOGO ) The panel on "Effectively Managing the Business Risk of Using Customer Data" is hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council...
BOSTON, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abine, Inc., a Boston online privacy startup, announced that its DoNotTrackPlus (DNT+) privacy app has surpassed one million downloads since its launch in February. Consumer concern about online privacy has grown consistently over the past year due to the Obama administration's online privacy efforts, proposed privacy legislation like SOPA and CISPA, and frequent privacy missteps by companies such as Facebook, Google, and Apple. Against...
NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Prompted by the breach of an estimated 6.5 million LinkedIn user's passwords, SaberGuard is making this offer available to all LinkedIn members. "It is important for individuals who might have been subjected to a data breach situation to have some form of Identity theft protection in place. Stolen passwords represent a strong potential for future fraud events, as people tend to use the exact same password when banking and transacting...
Contact At Once! Demonstrates Global Commitment to Consumer Privacy Protection San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 07, 2012 Today Contact At Once! announced its participation in the TRUSTe® U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program and its certification to display the TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Seal. This development demonstrates Contact At Once!'s global commitment to transparency, accountability and consumer choice, the foundations of online privacy. Contact At Once! joins thousands of TRUSTe-certified...
ATLANTA, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Alan F. Westin, an iconic figure in privacy law throughout the world, and Of Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, will receive the first Louis D. Brandeis Hero of Privacy Award at the International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, June 6-7 at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120531/CL14061 )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110412/CL77056LOGO...
A new social app that can scan the faces of bar patrons in order to determine their ages and genders launched in venues throughout the US this past weekend, and it has wasted little time in raising the hackles of privacy advocates harboring concerns over how much and what types of information are being stored by the program. The app in question, SceneTap, launched in two dozen bars in San Francisco on Friday and earlier in Austin, Texas; Athens, Georgia; Bloomington, Indiana; Chicago,...
MALVERN, Pa., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AboutOne (http://www.AboutOne.com), the leading online family organizer, today announced that the company will be featured in the Innovator Spotlight at the third annual Privacy Identity Innovation Conference (http://www.PrivacyIdentityInnovation.com). The conference theme is "Building Trust in the Digital Age" and explores where digital innovation is heading and what it means to the future of digital privacy, identity, reputation, and...
PORTLAND, Ore., April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With healthcare now the top-breached industry, healthcare organizations and providers are challenged by the complexities of auditing, assessing, documenting, and reporting these privacy incidents. To help simplify healthcare privacy incident detection, incident assessment and reporting in order to comply with Federal and state data breach laws, ID Experts has successfully completed FairWarning® Ready for Compliance and Reporting...
GENEVA, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey, using its leadership in Digital Identity Management, has developed the Social Media Security Graph methodology for personal information protection. The security company advocates that personal data protection need not be neglected for the enjoyment of social media or surrendered to the network provider. A number of social graphs have emerged controlling slices of social media, but as isolated models each becomes a de-facto...
LONDON, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Research Now, the leading global online sampling and data collection company, has announced that it has recently received the well-respected TRUSTe Email and Website Privacy Seal of Approval for its Valued Opinions panel in the United Kingdom. Research Now joins over 5,000 companies committed to building consumer trust online through participation in the TRUSTe Privacy Seal programme. "The new certification is evidence of our...
