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Why Backupify Supports European Style Data Privacy Standards

by Rob May on Mar 15, 2013 in Data Ownership

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on whether or not the U.S. should adopt European data privacy protections. In Europe, there are strict rules about what companies can and can’t do in terms of collecting, using, disclosing and storing personal information, and governments are pushing to make the regulations even stronger. That has [...]

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Why Maryland’s Employee Facebook Protection Law Is (Sort Of) A Bad Idea

by Jay Garmon on Apr 21, 2012 in Data Ownership
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Maryland is standing up for privacy rights and data ownership, as the Old Line State is set to ban employers from demanding access to employee social networking accounts. In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a growing national trend of corporations, schools and state agencies requiring a handover of Facebook passwords so employers can monitor and [...]

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The Path Fiasco Wasn’t A Privacy Breach, It Was A Data Ownership Breach

by Jay Garmon on Feb 09, 2012 in Data Ownership

The upstart social networking app Path got in some very hot water recently when it was revealed the company secretly copied all its users’ iPhone address books to its private servers. The virtual postcard app Hipster got called out for the same thing. They aren’t the first to get caught doing this, and they won’t [...]

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Federal Agencies Demonstrate Social Media Best Practices

by Kristin Dziadul on Apr 06, 2011 in The Cloud

Government agencies are now coming together to discuss best practices within social media. There are still many concerns but agencies are learning how to best utilize social media to coincide with their current records retention and security policies.

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What Google’s Privacy Mea Culpa Means for Your Data Control

by Kristin Dziadul on Oct 28, 2010 in Google Services

Google has implemented three new security initiatives, but warns users that they ultimately need to practice ways to avoid human error which attributes to over one third of all data loss.

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