BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Data Protection
- the safeguards that govern the storage and use of personal data held on computer systems and in paper-based filing systems. The growing use of computers to store information about individuals has led to the enactment of legislation in many countries designed to protect the privacy of individuals and prevent the disclosure of information to unauthorized persons.
Additional Resources
- German court overturns phone, e-mail data law
- BERLIN - Germany's highest court on Tuesday overturned a law that let anti-terror authorities retain data on telephone calls and e-mails, saying it posed a "grave intrusion" to personal privacy rights and must be revised. The court ruling was the latest to sharply criticize a major initiative by Chancellor Angela...
- News items 2010-03-02
- Google May Drop Street View in EU if Photo Storage Time Is Cut
- March 3 Bloomberg -- Google Inc., the owner of the most popular search engine, may not map Europe again with photos for its Street View service if European Union data-protection regulators reduce the images' storage time from 12 months to 6."I think we would consider whether we want to drive...
- News items 2010-03-03
- Cisco outlines new plan for securing mobile, cloud apps
- Cisco on Monday outlined its security product-development strategy aimed at providing a new type of "always on" security protection for mobile devices as well as a way to establish controls over cloud-computing applications used by the enterprise. Cisco is calling the initiative its Secure Borderless Network architecture.The initiative basically entails...
- News items 2010-03-02
- Microsoft exec: Infected PCs should be quarantined (Q&A)
- Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft(Credit: James Martin/CNET )SAN FRANCISCO--In his keynote at the RSA security conference on Tuesday, Scott Charney, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing, suggested that the security industry should follow the health care model of quarantining infected PCs to prevent them...
- News items 2010-03-02
- Fifteen states have polluter-driven resolutions to deny climate threat
- by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . Yesterday, the South Dakota legislature passed a resolution telling public schools to teach "balance" about the " prejudiced " science of climate change by a vote of 37-33. Earlier language that ascribed "...
- News items 2010-03-02
- Pfizer Said to Bid as Much as $4.08 Billion for Ratiopharm
- March 3 Bloomberg -- Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, is bidding as much as 3 billion euros ($4.08 billion) for German generic-drug maker Ratiopharm GmbH, said two people with knowledge of the talks.Pfizer could make a presentation to Ratiopharm's management as early as this week to support its bid,...
- News items 2010-03-02
- White House declassifies outline of cybersecurity program
- Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our...
- News items 2010-03-02
- Is Vornado Eyeing Up General Growth?
- The reorganization plan was a move to fend off an unsolicited $10 billion takeover offer from the Simon Property Group. While it would leave General Growth independent upon exiting Chapter 11 protection, it would make Brookfield, of Canada, one of its largest equity holders. Under one scenario, Vornado might team...
- News items 2010-03-03
- Cisco announces 'Security without Borders' solution
- Cisco announced a new architecture designed to help business users securely access information from any device and location. The Cisco Secure Borderless Network architecture focuses on four anchors: mobile and fixed enterprise endpoints, the Internet edge, the data center and policy that is context- and location-aware. As...
- News items 2010-03-03
- Hopes, and a Stock, Plunge on Failure of Alzheimer's Drug
- It seemed somewhat unlikely, but in recent years an old Russian hay fever pill had become one of the world's best hopes for treating the growing epidemic of Alzheimer's disease. Go to your Portfolio » But those hopes were dashed on Wednesday when the drug failed in its first late-stage...
- News items 2010-03-03
- Microsoft open-sources clever U-Prove identity framework
- More and more personal, private information is being used and stored online than ever before, and at the same time, attacks on that information are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Phishing is a growth industry—it's very profitable to trick people into handing over names, passwords, credit card numbers, and so...
- News items 2010-03-03
