• Australian’s concerned about personal data drifting offshore

  Offshore storage of our personal data, and our ability to retain control over it have been marked as concerns for Australians using cloud services, according to a poll commissioned by the industry coalition OzHub.

• Australians concerned about personal data drifting offshore: OzHub

  Offshore storage of our personal data and our ability to retain control over it have been marked as concerns for Australians using cloud services, according to a poll commissioned by the industry coalition OzHub.

• 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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  Eliminating Tape

  When it comes to storage and backup, the old tape may not ‘cut the mustard’ in today’s world. But how does one move on from tape? This Computerworld Australia Guide, sponsored by EMC, examines whether the Cloud will provide a viable long-term archiving option to magnetic tape. This guide also looks at eliminating tape by examining storage and backup alternatives, taking examples of organisations that have managed to overcome problems with tape. Read more.

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  OVUM Report: Governance Risk and Compliance-- GRC usage and buying trends in the ANZ markets

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  Delivering Tomorrow's Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance