The Federal Trade Commission has notified hundreds of US businesses that their sensitive data is circulating freely on peer-to-peer file sharing networks for all to see.

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In what appears to be a warning shot, the Federal Trade Commission has sent out letters to about 100 companies, informing them about sensitive and confidential data from their networks being found on publicly available on peer-to-peer networks.

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Is your personal information floating around on peer-to-peer networks? The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sent letters to about 100 unnamed companies to inform them that private customer information was located on file-sharing sites.

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The US Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, DC. The US Federal Trade Commission said Monday it has notified nearly 100 companies and organizations of data breaches involving personal information about customers or employees.

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The Federal Trade Commission has notified almost 100 organizations that personal information, including sensitive data about customers and/or employees, has been shared from the organizationsa computer networks and is available on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks to any users of those networks, who could use it to commit identity theft or fraud.

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Psst: want to know the future of cyberspace? You could try asking a rock star. Why? Well, some of them have turned out to be perceptive futurologists.

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The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files trading on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says.

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Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Receipt of Child Pornography Man with Prior Conviction for Child Molestation Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison ROBERT FRANCIS PIERCE, 41, of Kirkland, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to Receipt of Child Pornography.

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PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security , the Cloud Security Company, has detected a new worm, Spybot.AKB . It spreads using Peer-to-Peer programs by copying itself to the usual shared folders with different names, and also via email.

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“Workers building Apple iPods , mostly young women from rural areas of China labouring in, 15-hour shifts, were, housed in dormitories from which outsiders are banned, and regularly pay about half their wages for room and board charges,” said p2pnet last summer, going on, “And in a report, Apple admitted there were indeed, ‘violations to our Code …

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Computer users who sign up for peer-to-peer file-sharing programs don’t have a privacy right to be shielded from FBI probes, according to a federal appeals court ruling in San Francisco today.

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Under the Feb. 15 initiative spearheaded by the Media Action Grassroots Network , advocates will visit members of Congress and sponsor discussions and “teach-ins” on the topics.

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A Casnovia Township man serving 30 to 70 years in state prison for raping a 6-year-old boy was given a 30-year sentence in federal court Friday for producing child pornography.

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A 72-year-old grandfather guilty of possessing and distributing child pornography has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and fined $4,000. A publication ban prohibits identifying the man, who used non-pornographic pictures of his grandchildren to pose as a young child in online chat groups.

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February 13, 2010 - Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation , Miami Field Office; Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement , Office of Investigations; and Al Lamberti, Sheriff, Broward …

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