Any US organisation exchanging personal data with Europe must abide by the Safe Harbor (http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/) agreement which requires them to comply with the EU's strict data protection laws. So any information help about European citizens would have to be kept encrypted with restricte...

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Man, I bet you guys LOVED printing this story!...

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I Agree with the guy above and bring back bugtrack radio with the guy's who cant read!...

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Auditors (the big-5 behemoths first) should be regularly *audited* themselves... and I bet they are, but with what results?

These are the giants who reap the larger contracts, but do they guarantee anything on their procedures? This is not the first case in which they cause substantial damage.

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Wow.... anyone who works in information security would feel a little bit peeved here if they have been on the recieving end of audits from organisations like Deloittes.

Okay - mistakes happen, etc, etc - but it makes you wonder whether auditors are more interested in ticking off items on audit s...

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