The Open Digital Policy Organization reports that the Norwegian Data Inspectorate has effectively declared use of Google Apps in Norway to be illegal.
Open Digital cites a report dated 16 January which suggests that corporate use of Google cloud services under standard terms violates Norwegian data protection laws. In what it calls a ‘Notice of Decision’ the Inspectorate states that the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement does not adequately guarantee data protection in the face of the US Patriot Act. The Patriot Act gives the US government the right and ability to demand personal data on any person anywhere in the world if that data is held anywhere in the world by a US company – such as Google.
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Microblogging site Twitter has acquired Dasient, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of spam and malware protection services, for an undisclosed sum.
“Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter”, Dasient wrote Monday on its blog.
“By joining Twitter, Dasient will be able to apply its technology and team to the world’s largest real-time information network. As part of this merger, Dasient is winding down its business and is no longer able to accept new customers”, the company wrote.
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The Feds put the smackdown on Megaupload and its whole executive team last week, charging them with criminal charges for copyright infringement and racketeering in addition to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and money laundering.
As a result, it appears that several other cloud locker companies have curbed their sharing ways to avoid similar DOJ entanglements. FileSonic and Fileserve have eliminated file sharing from their service menus, and Uploaded.to is no longer available to those in the US.
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CyberSource, a payment management company working in e-commerce and providing a fraud management system has published its latest report: UK Online Fraud Report 2012.
The report is a mine of statistics on the extent and breakdown of online fraud. One of the key and unsurprising conclusions that can be drawn from these statistics is that fraud is too high, and that fraud screening technologies should be better employed. For example, 61% of merchants have a manual review element to their transaction process. Where this exists, even with the existence of the automated fraud screening system, more than one in five transactions are taken out of the system for that manual review.
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The UK government has published its long-awaited cybersecurity strategy plan, detailing the gameplan for UK PLC and the internet over the next four years.
Entitled `The UK Cyber Security Strategy: Protecting and Promoting the UK in a Digital World’ the paper outlines the four main pillars of action it wants the private and public sector to adopt in the run-up to 2015.
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Shaun is a man with a background in joinery, music, administration, management, web development and technologies. A devoted friend and father to his wonderful daughter, he is also a family man. He likes to create and produce things which has led him into a stronger, more passionate pursuit of development.
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