Compliance Management

Merchants, desiring an easier path to PCI compliance, may soon be encouraged to consider a number of nascent technologies that can help protect cardholder data.

Facebook will create an independent foundation to promote data security and privacy, per the settlement of a class-action lawsuit.

Privacy advocates are questioning a provision of the new health care breach notification rule, which states that organizations only need to alert victims if they believe disclosure of the information "poses some harm."

California Sen. Joe Simitian is close to seeing another of his privacy bills get signed into law -- this one requiring that data breach notification letters contain more details.

Lawmakers expect to consider privacy laws when they return from summer recess.

Users will be required to update to the latest, non-vulnerable version of Windows Live Messenger -- or they risk being denied access to the instant messaging service.

Facebook plans to refine its privacy safeguards in response to concerns by Canada's privacy commissioner.