Data protection could be enhanced by new tool

30/06/2010

HP has announced it is working on a new tool which could help firms manage and improve data protection, it has been reported.

The EnCoRe tool, which stands for ensuring consent and revocation, is designed to sit in corporate back-end systems, syncing information on the privacy tools the user has agreed to pass on to third-party sites, reports V3.

Pete Rammett, a senior researcher at HP Labs, said as users are placing more information online than before, there is growing understanding about the importance of increased information security at firms.

"We've developed a plug-in for web browsers at the front-end, and at the back-end an architecture that keeps track of how people's data is shared and passed on and what permissions are given."

The news provider reported him as saying: "With the European Commission urging the UK government to give the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) more powers, there is certainly a need among all types of businesses to have more control over data they own."

In April, the government introduced new fines related to the Data Protection Act for the ICO to enforce.

Businesses that deliberately or accidentally breach data protection can face fines of up to £500,000 under the amended legislation.

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