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NewsProposed E.U. data rules include 2 percent fine for lost data
Under a proposed update to the European Union's data protection law, companies could be fined as much as 2 percent of their annual sales for losing personal data or processing sensitive information Read more...
Research projects take broader look at cloud challenges
As companies continue to examine the risks and benefits of moving their applications to cloud-based services, there are two new concerted efforts underway to take a broader look at the challenges Read more...
Europe, United States eye tighter online privacy rules
Recent data breaches at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook have spurred European regulators to call for tighter rules safeguarding private data, reports Eric Pfanner at The New York Times. Burgeoning Read more...
EU opens antitrust probe of Google
Google's lawyers can never take a day off. The company gets sued in U.S. courts, it faces U.S. regulatory panels aiming to restrict its activities or its hauled before Congress to testify about Read more...
Google declares war on Microsoft
Google is seeking to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft that claims the software giant is unfairly trying to stifle the web browsers of competitors. The case, initiated by the Read more...
Internet gambling downsized
CIOs should have no fears that employees will be diverted during the workday to online gambling from overseas. A new agreement between the United States, the European Union, Japan and Canada will Read more...
Global standards for privacyNo one argues against the fact that having one set of privacy standards would save money and help reduce confusion, but creating those global standards is a tall order. The main problem is that Read more... New way for stopping denial-of-service attacksA multi-million dollar security research effort in the works for the past two years is producing some new tech strategies for fighting sophisticated denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that are Read more... EU antitrust battle may delay VistaMicrosoft's continuing antitrust battle with the European Union could end up delaying or impacting the future of its newest operating system, Vista, which has great potential to become the next Read more... SPOTLIGHT: EU may hit Microsoft with new antitrust inquiry
Regulators from the European Union are now strongly considering bringing new illegal monopoly charges against Microsoft. Such suits are getting to be just a routine cost of doing business Read more...
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