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CHICAGO MarketWatch -- The police investigation of phone hacking by London tabloid reporters has broadened beyond News Corp.'s News of the World, which folded July 10, according to a CNN report citing the British Information Commissioner's Office, identified as a data-protection agency.

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Johannes Caspar , head of the Hamburg data-protection agency, said the agreement aims to protect data of people whose information could be imported into Facebook even though they have not joined the service.

Facebook Alters Tool in German Privacy Deal Christopher Lawton 2011

Proposals by the European Union to introduce a new data-protection regime across Europe, and thereby de facto across a lot of the world, may likewise have, albeit less fatal, unexpected results.

Assessing the New EU Data Bill's Unforeseen Consequences Ben Rooney 2012

Companies could be fined as much as 2% of annual global revenue if they breach data-protection rules proposed by the European Commission.

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Ms. Reding says 82% of Germans, which has one of the toughest data-protection regimes in Europe, are concerned about what happens to their data.

Assessing the New EU Data Bill's Unforeseen Consequences Ben Rooney 2012

S companies in Davos later this week about our rethink of the general data-protection rules in Europe.

The Digital Forecast Is Cloudy Viviane Reding 2011

On Wednesday, U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, the regulator in charge of data protection, issued a statement saying that, as a result of the "significant breach" of law, his office would audit Google's data-protection practices in the U.K. and ask the Mountain View, Calif. -based company to sign an official commitment affirming that such breaches wouldn't occur again.

U.K.: Google Breached Data Laws Paul Sonne 2010

The compromise, which Facebook agreed to implement in Germany, resolves legal proceedings that data-protection officials in the German city-state of Hamburg launched against the social networking giant in July.

Facebook Alters Tool in German Privacy Deal Christopher Lawton 2011

Earlier this month, German data-protection authorities broke off talks with Google over privacy concerns related to its Google Analytics tool.

Facebook Alters Tool in German Privacy Deal Christopher Lawton 2011

AMSTERDAM— Google Inc. faces fines of as much as €1 million $1.4 million from Dutch authorities if it fails to comply with a new set of data-protection demands linked to Street View, the highest penalty so far in connection with the controversial service.

Google Faces New Demands In Netherlands Over Street View Data Archibald Preuschat 2011