• Social Networks May Be Sharing Your Info with Advertisers

  Lately, social networking sites have been bending over backwards to assure their users that user privacy is of utmost importance--but it may have all been in vain, as the Wall Street Journal discovered Thursday that several social networking sites are sharing, with advertisers, information that can be used to identify individuals.

• US consumers are data fatties, study finds

  We're always hearing about how Americans consume far too many calories. It turns out, though, food isn't the only thing we're gorging ourselves on.

• UK gov't loses personal data on 4M people in one year

  The U.K. government has lost the personal information of up to four million citizens in one year alone.

• Restore data after motherboard death

  Peter's motherboard died. How can he retrieve the data on his hard drive?

• 2009: The year your data died

  For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed, and all the rest may have to move over. This is rapidly becoming the Year the Data Died.

Whitepapers about personal data

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  2012 Data Backup Strategy Guide

  Articles include: 10 best cloud backup strategies for biz continuity, Disk or tape? How about both, Protect Your Backup Data from Murphy’s Law, Back up without crashing.

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  Two May Be Better Than One: Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together

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  Lower Your IT Costs When You Standardize on Oracle Database 11g

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  Building Virtualised Datacenters and Private Clouds: The Critical Role of Unified and Converged IT Infrastructure