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Over the weekend, the Data Protection Commissioner announced that they were considering asking mobile phone companies to suspend the ability of mobile phone subscribers to access their voicemail remotely by dialling in to it from other phones. [clarification: the DPC has issued a clarification to this which we have detailed in this subsequent post] This ...

Facebook’s privacy policies are not entirely in compliance with Data Protection principles. They are designed, it seems, to invite accidental disclosure of personal data. One mantra I’ve heard about Facebook is that “you are only as secure as your friends”.  I use Facebook, but only sparingly and with every effort to keep my footprint as ...