France’s privacy watchdog on Friday called on Google to apply a European data protection ruling to its global domains or face financial penalties.

French authorities are now increasing the pressure on the American company, saying that Google must apply the ruling across all of its domains in the next 15 days or face penalties including a one-off fine of up to 300,000 euros, or almost $340,000.

Hackers linked to China have gained access to the sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for security clearances, U.S. officials said Friday, describing a cyberbreach of federal records dramatically worse than first acknowledged.

The forms authorities believed may have been stolen en masse, known as Standard Form 86, require applicants to fill out deeply personal information about mental illnesses, drug and alcohol use, past arrests and bankruptcies. They also require the listing of contacts and relatives, potentially exposing any foreign relatives of U.S. intelligence employees to coercion. Both the applicant's Social Security number and that of his or her cohabitant is required.

The Commodore Amiga was new to GRPS in the early 1980s and it has been working tirelessly ever since. GRPS Maintenance Supervisor Tim Hopkins said that the computer was purchased with money from an energy bond in the 1980s.

A new, more current system would cost between $1.5 and 2 million. If voters pass a $175 million bond proposal in November, the computer is on the list of things to be replaced.

As officials of the Obama administration announced that millions of sensitive records associated with current and past federal employees and contractors had been exposed by a long-running infiltration of the networks and systems of the Office of Personnel Management on June 4, they claimed the breach had been found during a government effort to correct problems with OPM's security.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the breach was indeed discovered in April. But according to sources who spoke to the WSJ's Damian Paletta and Siobhan Hughes, it was in fact discovered during a sales demonstration of a network forensics software package.

It involved attackers using malicious programs to infect many of the 20,000 machines used by politicians, support staff and civil servants that sit on the Parlakom network.

German newspaper Der Spiegel quoted a parliamentary source who said the malware was still "active" and stealing data from infected machines.

One report suggested that the federal office for computer security (BSI) had said that cleaning up the infection could cost millions of euros and involve replacing all the computers.

Google Inc.’s avowed strategy of courting German carmakers into partnerships got a snub from Audi AG amid concerns that Internet-assisted driving may risk intruding on passenger privacy.

“Customers want to be at the center” of their car-ownership “and not exploited for it,” Stadler said Tuesday. “They want to be in control of their data and not subject to monitoring. And we take this seriously.”

Belgian arrested two suspects and issued arrest warrants against three others following anti-terror raids Monday.

Investigators said earlier they had detained 16 people in the anti-terror raids after working with U.S. authorities to monitor suspects’ communications on WhatsApp Inc.’s messaging service.

One of the killer selling points of virtualisation is that when a physical cluster node needed fixing, upgrading or taking out of service it is a trivial matter to just migrate the hosts virtual machines onto another cluster node.

In big business, where everything is change controlled to the smallest degree, changes that require host outages can cost several hundreds of pounds by the time all the work is completed. Failing a piece of work because there was a faux cluster node on the host is seen as a big issue.

The study explains: "Resignation occurs when a person believes an undesirable outcome is inevitable and feels powerless to stop it. Rather than feeling able to make choices, Americans believe it is futile to manage what companies can learn about them."

It says: "By misrepresenting the American people and championing the tradeoff argument, marketers give policymakers false justifications for allowing the collection and use of all kinds of consumer data often in ways that the public find objectionable."

The majority of people truly believe that the likes of Orbitz and Expedia are legally required to display the lowest prices available. 65 percent even believe that the mere existence of a so-called privacy policy means that their data won't be shared without their permission.

The Red Cross says it has provided homes to more than 130,000 people. But the actual number of permanent homes the group has built in all of Haiti: six.

The Red Cross won’t disclose details of how it has spent the hundreds of millions of dollars donated for Haiti. But our reporting shows that less money reached those in need than the Red Cross has said.

We asked the Red Cross to show us around its projects in Haiti so we could see the results of its work. It declined.

It has declined repeated requests to disclose the specific projects, to explain how much money went to each or to say what the results of each project were.