<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Personal-data-privacy News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&amp;catid=287</link><description>News Feed for - Personal-data-privacy</description><item><title>Dissident PPP leaders complain of phone tapping</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96561348&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T05:04:00</pubDate><description>Islamabad, Nov.26 : 'Dissident' leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has accused the government of tapping the telephone lines of several senior party leaders, saying their activities were being </description><source>Cambodian Times</source></item><item><title>Mashable??s ben parr gives facebook privacy tips on cnn [video]... (Mashable via </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96628185&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T05:28:00</pubDate><description>Facebook, originally a private network for friends and college networks, is increasingly becoming more open, allowing users to make some or all of their content public.  That??s causing some confusion, </description><source>TechNews.AM</source></item><item><title>CalPERS reviews hedge funds</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96424717&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-27T02:47:00</pubDate><description>The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest U.S. state pension plan, will strengthen oversight of its hedge fund investments after a report that two advisers continued to be paid by </description><source>Contra Costa Times</source></item><item><title>Obama wants computer privacy ruling overturned</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96514457&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T02:55:00</pubDate><description>Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrowed the government's search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and </description><source>Nextgov.com</source></item><item><title>Easter bomb plot: no need for phone tap evidence</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96446485&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T07:41:00</pubDate><description>Using intercepted telephone calls in court would be ??wholly against the national interest? and the debate should be drawn to a conclusion, the government??s terrorism watchdog said. Lord Carlile </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Galleon's Raj Rajaratnam attacks insider-trading charges</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96337709&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T02:06:00</pubDate><description>NEW YORK ? Lawyers for a hedge fund executive charged in a broad insider-trading investigation Tuesday denied Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he used non-public data on Google, Hilton </description><source>USA Today</source></item><item><title>The fallacy of Facebook privacy</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96601223&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:58:00</pubDate><description>Natalie Blanchard is either the most naïve Facebook user in the history of the social networking service, or an incredibly unlucky woman who just can't seem to get back on her feet. Whatever title she </description><source>Beta News</source></item><item><title>Beware text message scam in Merced County: Note seeks personal information from </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96556944&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:03:00</pubDate><description>A new text message scam has been reported in Merced County -- and sheriff's investigators are warning residents to beware. The scam, first reported Monday afternoon, has generally appeared in the form </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Galleon Founder Accused of Insider Trading Blasts Wiretap Use</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96474265&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:48:00</pubDate><description>Billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam responded forcefully to SEC insider trading charges in papers filed Tuesday by his lawyers at . In the 32-page response, Akin Gump lawyers claim that wiretaps </description><source>Yahoo! Canada</source></item><item><title>Concern over control and use of personal information could leave users behind in </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96560811&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T13:33:00</pubDate><description>Nine in ten Britons are concerned about which organisations have their personal information and how it is used. According to research commissioned by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT as part of its </description><source>SC Magazine UK</source></item><item><title>DPR Supports Regulations on Wiretaps</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96556861&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T09:04:00</pubDate><description>TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:A member of Commission III of the House of Representatives' (DPR), Bambang Soesatyo, welcomed the government's plan to issue a regulation on wiretapping. 'Wiretapping should </description><source>Tempo Interaktif</source></item><item><title>Free TiVo Movies Deal Has Privacy Issues</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96537923&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T05:09:00</pubDate><description>The service which is set to be launched next year, could result in private viewing data collected by TiVo's home digital video recorders being given away to advertisers. At this stage it is not known </description><source>Smart House</source></item><item><title>Avoiding Climbing Into Debt This Holiday Shopping Season</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96489772&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T04:30:00</pubDate><description>MEMPHIS, TN - Big crowds and big sales. Experts say its a huge way to pile on even bigger debt. The day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday marks the day most retailers turn a profit. But if </description><source>My Eyewitness News</source></item><item><title>Google Analytics under attack over privacy</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96490273&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T01:23:00</pubDate><description>Google has defended its free Analytics web traffic service against arguments that it conflicts with web users' privacy. The German ULD privacy commission has even suggested that the service breaks German </description><source>SC Magazine Australia</source></item><item><title>EU citizens to get better broadband and privacy rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96445428&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T07:30:00</pubDate><description>500 million EU citizens will soon benefit from more consumer choice, better coverage with faster internet broadband and from greater rights to privacy thanks to a telecoms reform packaged agreed by the </description><source>Silicon Republic</source></item><item><title>Eavesdropping considered to be used to fight corruption</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96442909&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T07:02:00</pubDate><description>Increases the bookmark Adoption of special measures such as wiretapping and eavesdropping in corruption investigations is winning approval within the procuratorate, a prosecutor said. Zhu Xiaoqing, deputy </description><source>People's Daily Online</source></item><item><title>Federal Insurance Office Debate on Tap for After Thanksgiving</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96347608&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T02:09:00</pubDate><description>Establishing a Federal Insurance Office will be on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee's agenda when it returns from the Thanksgiving holiday. The committee did not take up the issue of establishing </description><source>Advisen FPN</source></item><item><title>Data matching: a threat to privacy?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96299753&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:33:00</pubDate><description>pan1 is concerned about the government's ability to sort, extract and compare data in the hunt for council tax fraud  pan1 has made lots of postings concerning the use of data matching by the Audit Commission, </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>B.C. government probes leak of personal data of 1,400 welfare recipients</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96519983&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:19:00</pubDate><description>VICTORIA, B.C. - The B.C. government is under fire after the personal information of 1,400 welfare recipients was found in the hands of a public servant under investigation by the RCMP's commercial crimes </description><source>Brandon Sun</source></item><item><title>Jury considers verdicts in student murder trial</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96418631&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T13:56:00</pubDate><description>A jury has retired to consider verdicts in the case of two men accused or murdering university student Ben Neilson (pictured) from Ashford. Zion Covey, 21, of Lynsted Close, Stanhope, Ashford, and Gareth </description><source>KM Extra</source></item><item><title>Lawyers Waited Too Long to Sue Pellicano, Christensen Over Wiretaps</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96351614&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T23:21:00</pubDate><description>Amanda Bronstad The National Law Journal del.icio.us Digg Reddit Facebook Google Bookmarks Newsvine LinkedIn Mixx Stumbleupon A trial judge has thrown out separate civil lawsuits brought against Los Angeles </description><source>Law.com</source></item><item><title>Minister calls for stricter rules on wiretapping</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96321427&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-24T07:09:00</pubDate><description>JAKARTA: Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring says stricter regulations are needed for law-enforcement institutions performing wire taps. 'In future, it would be better if law-enforcement </description><source>Jakarta Post</source></item><item><title>Life360 takes in $750K to secure personal information</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96492970&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:10:00</pubDate><description>Life360 , provider of a service that secures people??s important personal information ?? like medical history ?? until there is an emergency, has raised $750,000 in funding . Based in San Francisco, </description><source>Industry Standard</source></item><item><title>Galleon chief slams US prosecutors for use of wiretaps</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96457880&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T10:52:00</pubDate><description>Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam on Tuesday attacked US prosecutors?? use of court-authorised wiretaps in connection with the insider trading charges against him, saying this represented a violation of </description><source>Wealth-Bulletin.com</source></item><item><title>Keeping Personal Data Private</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96450947&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=287</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T08:29:00</pubDate><description>In 2006, a Veterans Affairs Department analyst lost a laptop and external drive with Social Security numbers and other personal data from more than 26 million veterans and active duty troops. There was </description><source>New York Times</source></item></channel></rss>