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- One policy, one Google experience
- Google. "We're getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google... March 1, 2012 is when the new Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service will come into effect. If you choose to keep using Google once the change occurs, you will be doing so under the new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service."
Added: 15 February 2012;
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- Privacy Policy - Google
- Google. Last modified: October 20, 2011. "This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Google Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies except Postini (Postini Privacy Policy). Sometimes, we may post product specific privacy notices or Help Center materials to explain our products in more detail... This Privacy Policy will be replaced with our new Privacy Policy, effective March 1, 2012..."
Added: 15 February 2012;
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- Portable Storage Devices - Privacy Survey - in pdf format (546kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, December 2011. "... In 2008 Privacy Victoria undertook a survey into the Victorian Public Sector's use of portable storage devices (PSDs). The survey found that the Victorian Public Sector generally handled PSDs poorly. This potentially posed a serious security risk. One of the most serious issues was the scarcity of meaningful policies to control the use of PSDs in the surveyed organisations. This was specifically addressed with the release of Use of Portable Storage Devices – a guide to policy development in August 2009. This is a follow-up survey, undertaken to gauge the degree to which organisations had improved their management of the use of PSDs. In addition, there has been a series of technological, behavioural and procedural developments which are discussed in turn in this report..."
Added: 1 February 2012;
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- Portable Storage Devices continue to pose privacy risks for the public sector - media release
- Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Media Release, 30 January 2012. "The Victorian Privacy Commissioner today released the results of the Portable Storage Devices Privacy Survey 2011. The results of the 2011 Portable Storage Devices Privacy Survey, reveal that a disappointing number of organisations have showed no improvement as compared with the 2008 results, the Victorian Privacy Commissioner announced today. The Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Helen Versey, said the 2011 follow up survey was designed to gauge the degree to which organisations first surveyed in 2008 had improved their management of portable storage devices (PSDs), as well as examine how new devices such as tablets were being managed. 'Seven organisations, including three local councils, still had no documented policies and procedures to control the use of PSDs, despite the fact that I recommended in the first survey report that, at a minimum, organisations require them,' Ms Versey said..."
Added: 1 February 2012;
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- Google privacy policy claims challenged by watchdog
- SafeGov disputes the Internet search leader's claims that the changes won't affect government workers using Google apps, by John P. Mello Jr. (PC World (US online)). CIO, 31 January, 2012. "Google's privacy policy changes have caught the attention of an independent watchdog of the federal cloud that is worried about security risks for government workers. SafeGov disputes the Internet search leader's claims that the changes won't affect government workers using Google apps. Google announced changes in its privacy policies Tuesday that it says are aimed at simplifying them. Part of that simplification includes sharing its users' data across all its services so it can be used to tailor delivery of those services, as well as advertising, to those users..."
Added: 31 January 2012;
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- Setting the record straight about our privacy policy changes
- Posted by Betsy Masiello, Policy Manager. Google Public Policy Blog, Thursday, January 26, 2012. "A lot has been said about our new privacy policy. Some have praised us for making our privacy policy easier to understand. Others have asked questions, including members of Congress, and that's understandable too. We look forward to answering those questions, and clearing up some of the misconceptions about our privacy policies that first appeared in the Washington Post. So, here's the real story..."
Added: 31 January 2012;
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- The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Applies to Any Data Stored in the USA
- By Irene Bodle. Web Analytics World, January 27, 2012. "The US Court of Appeals has ruled that the ECPA, an American law, protects the data of non-USA citizens when their data is stored on servers in the USA..."
Added: 31 January 2012;
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- Guidelines to the Information Privacy Principles - in pdf format (1137kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Edition 3 – November 2011. "... These Guidelines are intended for people working with the Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) in the Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000 (Information Privacy Act). The IPPs are relevant for all Victorian public sector employees, including those from Victorian government departments, local councils, statutory offices, government schools, universities and TAFEs. They can also be relevant for employees of private or community sector organisations, where those organisations are carrying out functions under a state contract with a Victorian public sector organisation..."
Added: 21 November 2011;
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- Victorian Privacy Commissioner updates public sector privacy guidelines
- Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Media Release, 16 November 2011. "The Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Helen Versey, today released the third edition of the Guidelines to the Information Privacy Principles in the Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000..."
Added: 21 November 2011;
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- Patriot Act fears jumping the gun: CA
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, November 16, 2011. "Fears of the Patriot Act forcing US companies to repatriate data stored overseas for international customers are unwarranted, given that the Act has yet to be tested, according to Mike Denning, general manager security business for CA Technologies..."
Added: 17 November 2011;
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- Australians give agencies 'no second chances' in breaches of privacy
- By Markus Mannheim, Canberra Times, 9 November, 2011. "Australians are among the world's least-forgiving customers when it comes to breaches of privacy, a survey suggests. Unisys's latest security report shows 85 per cent of Australians say they would stop dealing with a company or government agency online if it let an unauthorised party access their personal details. It was the highest result in the 12 countries studied..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- What does privacy mean in an age of big data?
- Author Terence Craig on why data transparency trumps anonymization, by Audrey Watters. O'Reilly Radar, 2 November 2011. "As we do more online — shop, browse, chat, check in, "like" — it's clear that we're leaving behind an immense trail of data about ourselves. Safeguards offer some level of protection, but technology can always be cracked and the goals of data aggregators can shift. So if digital data is and always will be a moving target, how does that shape our expectations for privacy? Terence Craig (@terencecraig), co-author of "Privacy and Big Data," examines this question and related issues in the following interview..."
Added: 7 November 2011;
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- More data, more transparency around government requests
- Posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst. Google public Policy Blog, Tuesday, October 25, 2011. "... Today we’re updating the Government Requests tool with numbers for requests that we received from January to June 2011. For the first time, we’re not only disclosing the number of requests for user data, but we’re showing the number of users or accounts that are specified in those requests too..."
Added: 26 October 2011;
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- Information commissioner calls for compulsory audits
- Data protection audits must be compulsory in NHS and local government, says information watchdog Christopher Graham, Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Friday 14 October 2011. "Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, has said that data protection audits must be compulsory in local government and the health service to ensure compliance with the law..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Is it legal to send your data overseas?
- by David Braue. Sydney Morning Herald, October 11, 2011. "Clearing the fog around cloud sovereignty. Companies considering moving business information to overseas cloud-computing services must weigh up the potential impact of more than 450 separate Acts of Parliament, experts warn. While countless Australian businesses are already hosting wesites and applications on cloud services overseas using services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, Anthony Wong – an intellectual property lawyer who runs AGW Consulting and is current president of the Australian Computer Society – warns they must ensure cloud data doesn't violate strict Australian business laws mandating customer privacy, retention of corporate records, enduring access to information, and so on..."
Added: 14 October 2011;
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