http://www.habeasdata.org.uy Noticias sobre protección de datos y habeas data Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:32:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 17, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that it will shorten the amount of time that it retains data about its users' online behavior -- including Internet search records -- to three months from 13 months and expand the range of data that it ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/12/18/yahoo-to-shorten-logs-of-user-activity-to-3-months/ Fuente:New York Times - 18/12/2008By Saul Hansell The advertising trade group that proposed that people with cancer deserve more privacy protections than those with heart disease has adopted a new version of its guidelines for how ad networks use data about Internet users. http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/12/18/your-privacy-is-protected-only-if-you-are-really-sick/ Fuente: ABC.es                                                                                                                                 La Agencia Española de Protección de Datos ha multado con 60.101 euros a la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) por grabar sin permiso una boda en Sevilla y aportar el vídeo a un juicio, lo que constituye "una clara violación del derecho constitucional a la intimidad ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/12/17/la-sgae-debera-pagar-60000-euros-por-grabar-una-boda-sin-consentimiento/ Fuente: The New York Times By SARAH PEREZ  "Koobface" is the name of the Trojan worm that's been making its way through the social networking site Facebook lately, but to the site's users, it's been simply known as "the Facebook virus." That name will soon become a misnomer, though, because the ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/12/15/the-facebook-virus-spreads-no-social-network-is-safe/ The Wall Street Journal – 21/11/2008. By Amol Sharma. Verizon Wireless disclosed late Thursday that several of its employees accessed and viewed President-elect Barack Obama's personal cellphone account, and said it planned to discipline workers for the privacy breach."We apologize to President-Elect Obama and will work to keep the trust ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/11/24/obamas-cellphone-account-breached-by-verizon-employees/ The New York Time – 13/11/2008 By Miguel Helft  When Google released its Flu Trends service earlier this week, the Drudge Report flashed a headline that read: “SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES, LOCATIONS TO FEDS.” http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/11/24/is-there-a-privacy-risk-in-google-flu-trends/ Fuente: Internacional Newsletter. Privacy Laws and Business. Data Protection and Privacy Information Worldwide. Published October 2007                     En Luxemburgo se han producido importantes cambios en la ley de protección de datos, que entraron a regir el 1º de setiembre de 2007. Se procura, por este medio, simplificar la implementación de la ley para ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/11/24/luxemburgo-suaviza-su-ley-de-proteccion-de-datos/ Fuente: Publicado en Planetary Gear. 31/10/2008. Candence Lombardi. Beware of flashing your keys in public. Computer scientists at the University of California at San Diego have developed software that can make a duplicate of a key from just a distant photo of it using technology available to almost anyone. http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/11/09/duplicating-keys-via-distant-digital-images/ Fuente: BBC News  An inquiry has been launched after a memory stick with user names and passwords for a key government computer system was found in a pub car park. Subcontractor Atos Origin, which lost the stick, said there had been a "direct breach" of its procedures. It said the matter ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/11/09/inglaterra-probe-into-data-left-in-car-park/ Fuente: Política digital - Innovación Gubernamental.  Se publicó en la Gaceta Oficial del Distrito Federal la Ley de Protección de Datos Personales (LPDP), basada en estándares internacionales para garantizar que la información personal sólo se utilice para el propósito para el que fue recolectada en un principio. La LPDP define como datos personales ... http://www.habeasdata.org.uy/2008/11/09/mexico-por-ley-protegen-datos-en-el-df/