The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user.
“Those responsible must take the necessary technical and organizational measures that ensure protection against data loss and unauthorized access,” said Reding. She criticized Sony mainly because it had informed its users so late about the loss of data.
The U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal Sony throws before failure. It was “outrageous and unacceptable” that Sony had not previously warned its customers, the senator wrote in an open letter. In addition, the company offers its customers not provide adequate protection against the consequences of data loss.
Sony has now announced a Chief Security Officer to use information. In addition, the company plans to compensate affected users and offer them a free service to protect against identity theft. Bloomberg suggested that the advertisements are not sufficient to clear the concerns of European data protection from the road.
The EU regulators have taken several times in the past on the design of products, policies and business agreements influence of multinational corporations. Were affected including Microsoft and Google, the latter for example in his book search and mapping service, Street View.
Last week, Sony had to concede the loss of personal data of more than 100 million users of the PlayStation Network and the multiplayer online entertainment service. They had been stolen by a hacker attack.
Also in the past week, Apple rejected allegations that it tracks the locations of its users. The stored data are rather part of an anonymous database, the iPhone users in the future to improve data transmission should help. For storing the entire information about Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers since the start of iOS4 in June 2010 a bug was responsible.
Over the next two weeks will seem an update that fixes the problem and ensure that the data collected will only be stored for seven days. In addition, users get the opportunity to completely disable the shutdown function of location services.
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The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
The European Commission has criticized Sony and Apple because of the recent data protection breakdowns. Viviane Reding, urged the Justice, Rights and Citizenship Commissioner, the company can restore the confidence of its customers, Bloomberg reported. Sony have recently been stolen user information, but Apple has collected data without informing the user. “Those responsible must take [...]
