The Register - Security: IDBiting the hand that feeds ITHMRC appoints 37 data guardians- February 29, 2008 Beefs up data responsibility HM Revenue and Customs has appointed 37 staff to protect information, since it lost personal records on 25 million people last November.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/hmrc_new_staff/ Please don't leave me... bitch- February 19, 2008 Breaking up with Facebook is (less) hard to do It was a long time coming but the web's favourite has-been-in-the-making, Facebook, has finally agreed to let users who are bored with it wrest their personal information from its advertising salesmens' clutches.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/fb_easy_to_leave/ Equifax asks customer to email debit card photocopies- February 8, 2008 Sanity check please Credit checking giant Equifax left Reg reader Thomas flummoxed when it told him to send copies of the front and back of his debit card when he asked for a credit report.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/08/equifax_credit_report_sill... DHS official moots Real ID rules for buying cold medicine- February 5, 2008 Slippery slope A senior US Department of Homeland Security official has floated the idea of requiring citizens to produce federally compliant identification before purchasing some over-the-counter medicines.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/real_id_for_cold_medicine/ Trial for T5 mandatory biometrics kicks off at Heathrow- February 4, 2008 Terminal 1 passengers get to be lab rats Quietly on Friday, Heathrow Airport recruited quantities of involuntary lab rats to test fingerprint-based securitytraffic control system planned for Terminal 5. The luckless pioneers were selected at Terminal 1, where biometrics are now being deducted from any domestic passengers wishing to visit the international lounge.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/heathrow_biometric_id/ |