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• Snapchat denies it was hacked

  While hackers say they have broken into a giant Snapchat database filled with Snapchat photos and videos and have been collecting files for years, the content messaging service denies it was hacked.

• Google looks for public input on right to be forgotten

  Google is planning a series of seven public meetings across Europe to discuss people's right to be forgotten with the public's right to information.

• Telstra talks customer phone privacy

  Telstra has moved to re-assure customers that their phone conversations are kept private and would be only accessed if a police warrant was in place for a particular customer.

• How Mobile Developers Can Win Customers' Trust

  Many of today's mobile and Web applications collect personal data. This makes plenty of users pause before downloading. To ease user's minds -- and to help developers demonstrate that they have legitimate reasons for collecting that information -- MyPermissions has established a permissions certificate process to deem apps 'trustworthy.'

• Franken presses Ford on location data collection practices

  A U.S. Senator Tuesday pressed Ford for information on its in-car data collection practices, citing recent boasts by a marketing executive at the automaker that it can monitor drivers via integrated navigation system.

• Open Source App Development Platform Aims to Ensure Privacy in the Cloud

  Data privacy is top of mind for users everywhere. Cloud storage and backup vendor SpiderOak plans to address privacy concerns with Crypton, an open-source Web app dev platform that crunches data in a browser-based client instead of the cloud.

• Opinion: Privacy may make or break e-health

  Over the past five years, the government and industry have developed legislation and standards that enable healthcare institutions to effectively share electronic health data.
  

• IT outsourcing in China and data privacy guidelines

  China's data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world's weakest. But the government's proposed data security guidelines may go too far in the opposite direction.

• Data privacy legislation hampering cyber crime prevention: ACC

  Organised crime groups have penetrated law enforcement bodies, and authorities are helpless to fight back due to restrictive data privacy legislation, according to the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) chief executive, John Lawler.
  

• Tail of e-health must not wag the dog of personal health care: report

  The protection of the individual is the primary function of personal health care data and the tail of health administration and research must not be permitted to wag the dog of personal health care, according to an Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) policy position document.