personal data news from FierceCIO

A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook, charging that it modified its privacy settings, reducing rather than increasing, privacy protections. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the... Read more...

ChoicePoint Inc. agreed to pay $275,000 to federal regulators as a result of a data breach last year that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal information of 13,750 people. The... Read more...

The founder of the World Wide Web has a warning for the online world: We all are at increased risk of governments and corporations spying on us. Tim Berners-Lee, who founded the World Wide Web, said... Read more...

The economy is casting many companies by the wayside, and raising concerns that electronic records with personal and confidential data are not being protected. "Certain companies have been disposing... Read more...

Is Big Brother watching your Internet activities and engaging in extensive data mining? Apparently so, or at least Uncle Sam is trying to keep a close eye on some of us. In an attempt to discover... Read more...

There's always the potential for big IT mistakes that can cause cost overruns, missed deadlines and sometimes even lost jobs. But there are plenty of ways to be forewarned and take action to prevent... Read more...

Everyone knows that predators are lurking about, ready and willing to steal data, and that the threats that come from everywhere in the world are numerous and real. But Cooper Bachman of ID Analytics... Read more...

Researchers from the University Michigan have conducted a study of the Web sites of 214 banks, and found design flaws in 76 percent of them that could potentially put the customers at risk. The... Read more...

It's almost an everyday occurrence: data lost through security lapses of one type or another. The latest company with lax controls was drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb. Company officials last week... Read more...

There are reports that mega-giant Google had a major data breach affecting employees.Workers hired before Dec. 31, 2005, received notices last month that their personal data, including Social... Read more...