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• Data drives up Bank of Queensland IT expenses

  Data collection activities have resulted in an increase in IT costs by $6 million for the Bank of Queensland (BOQ).

• Melbourne Water pushes mobile out into the field

  As an organisation that is responsible for one of the world’s most precious resources, water, Victorian government-owned Melbourne Water cannot afford to let its data collection process slip.

• Google Street View Privacy Breach: Lawmakers Get Mad

  Want a metric for the speed of US government? Just look at the response to Google Street View cars' accidental collection of private data.

• Google hit with class-action lawsuit over Wi-Fi snooping

  Google's secret Wi-Fi sniffing has prompted a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for each time it snatched data from unprotected hotspots, court documents show.

• E-health data collection key to tracking Swine Flu spread

  As the prospect of a flu pandemic grew more likely Wednesday -- the World Health Organization raised its threat alert to level 5 -- data is pouring into federal health care agencies using systems that a decade ago did not even exist.

• Opting out of targeted ads too hard, privacy advocates say

  The online advertising industry and U.S. policy makers need to give online users more control over the collection of personal data and surfing habits beyond the traditional opt-out approach, some privacy advocates said Wednesday.

Whitepapers about data collection

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  Re-thinking data collection, storage and security in an IoT world

  Does improving customer experience change the way we think about privacy? The Internet of Things (IoT) changes everything. The rise in IoT devices that collect data about you from smartwatches, home speakers, home automation and smart TV’s through to cell tower logging and browsing history collection creates a new world that redefines privacy.

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