• Google Street View Privacy Breach: Lawmakers Get Mad

  By Jared Newman | 21 May, 2010 02:45

  Want a metric for the speed of US government? Just look at the response to Google Street View cars' accidental collection of private data.

• Google hit with class-action lawsuit over Wi-Fi snooping

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 May, 2010 06:36

  Google's secret Wi-Fi sniffing has prompted a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for each time it snatched data from unprotected hotspots, court documents show.

• Opting out of targeted ads too hard, privacy advocates say

  By Grant Gross | 04 June, 2009 04:49

  The online advertising industry and U.S. policy makers need to give online users more control over the collection of personal data and surfing habits beyond the traditional opt-out approach, some privacy advocates said Wednesday.

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  Eliminating Tape

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  OVUM Report: Governance Risk and Compliance-- GRC usage and buying trends in the ANZ markets

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  Delivering Tomorrow's Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance