The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody.

The data includes call history, texts and contacts, and the BBC has learned that it will be retained regardless of whether any charges are brought. [Read more...]

Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the “majority” of the UK government’s own websites will fail to comply in time. [Read full story...]

If you’re running a business, chances are high that you’re collecting mounds of data about your customers, including their age, gender, interests and more.

And when you take that business online — whether it’s building the next Facebook or developing an app for iPhone or Android — that data can be leeched with the users consent the moment they sign up for your service. [Read full story...]

The ease with which private investigators can access highly personal and sensitive information stored in secure government databases has been exposed by a report that will intensify calls to regulate the industry.
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A group of students from Yale University have shared their final project for their Control, Privacy, and Technology course which offers the novel idea of using icons to brief users of a site’s privacy policy in a clear and simple manner. [Read full story...]

Myspace has settled charges with The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US consumer protection people, for violating federal law by sharing the private information and web browsing habits of its 25 million users with advertisers.
Myspace’s social network is much like Facebook’s, where people create unique online profiles with personal content including full name, gender, age, picture, and user handle known as a ‘Friend ID’. [Read full story...]

Oculis Labs released results from its “Government Worker Privacy” survey on privacy risks for mobile workers.
104 people were randomly surveyed at this year’s FOSE conference and exposition in Washington D.C., and of those surveyed, 62 percent are concerned about others looking at their displays while 63 percent admit to having looked at other people’s displays. [Read more...]

Last month Apple was caught out having delayed the release of a security update for Java, resulting in more than 600,000 Macs being recruited into a botnet.

Now a quality assurance mistake can cause OS X users’ FileVault encryption passwords to be exposed. [Read full story...]

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Fifty-eight percent of consumers who have a smart device use location-based applications, despite concerns about safety and third-party use of their personal information for marketing purposes, according to a survey from ISACA. [Read more...]