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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reminding charities that personal information must be handled securely after finding the Alzheimer’s Society in breach of the Data Protection Act.
One of the unencrypted laptops contained personal details including names, addresses, national insurance numbers and salary details for about 1,000 staff across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Sally-anne Poole, Head of Investigations at the ICO, said: “A thousand staff members’ details were stored on unencrypted laptops. This is unacceptable; portable devices must be encrypted if they are used to store personal information. It is vital that all organisations ensure personal information is handled securely and that appropriate staff have adequate training in this area.”
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At last! 3.2 is downloadable!
OpenOffice has now been released and boasts much faster start-up time than its predecessors. Not only does it start-up fast, but OpenOffice now lets you open and save files using Microsoft Office 2007’s “.docx” format giving you much easier access to files that have been saved on newer suites.
We believe it wont be long until you can run OpenOffice inside a web-browser, just like GoogleDocs.
OpenOffice 3.2 – can now be downloaded here for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Denmark’s recent Parliamentary decision means that as of April next year, all Danish state office communication will be sent in ODF format rather than Microsoft’s Office format.
According to version2.dk, Helge Sander (A Science Minister) told Parliament “My ambition is that in the future we will only communicate using open standards…”
If you want to test out open standards to closed standards you can grab a copy of Open Office here.
Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6.0. The Microsoft browser that is still widely (read: wrongly) used in a lot of big businesses today has been identified as the biggest risk in cyber attacks on the search engine. Google announced that certain services, like Google Docs, would not “work properly” within the browser.
Following Google’s revelations, the French and German governments advised their citizens to switch to a different browser until the hole had been closed. Around 20% of web users still use the nine-year old browser, including many UK government departments. The online campaign ie6nomore, supported by more than 70 web firms, says that because the browser does not support modern web standards it restricts what developers can do and is “holding the web back”. Microsoft has said
that it will support the browser until 2014.
Google is not alone is trying to get people to stop using IE 6, and upgrade to a newer browser. Even Microsoft itself has been trying to push people to upgrade the browser. Google’s decision to list IE6 as an unsupported Gmail browser does not affect just consumers: Tens of thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses that run Google Apps hosted services may dump IE6 as well in order to get full Gmail-based features while accessing business email accounts via a web browser.
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