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FTC Laptop Theft Exposes Consumer Data
The Federal Trade Commission -- an agency whose mission includes consumer protection and occasionally involves suing companies for negligence in protecting customer information -- today disclosed a recent theft of two laptop computers containing personal and financial data on consumers. More…
“With or without government intervention, encryption and passwords should certainly be the first line of defence”
Robert Ellis Smith, Publisher, Privacy Journal, Forbes.com4. Laptop seizure by border
nokVAULT defends your privacy:
U.S. agents now have the authority to seize and retain laptops indefinitely. This indeed blurs the distinction between "search" and "seizure," and could allow DHS officials to steal personal documents from laptops it has retained They can make copies of your contents and examine them at their leisure, and even share the contents with other U.S. government agencies. "Just because a traveller is crossing the U.S. border doesn't mean his or her privacy has to fly out the window.” Your data is your data and what belongs to you should stay with you, until you choose to give it away. nokVAULT ensures each user`s encryption and file system is unique to the individual, which cannot be duplicated. nokVAULT utilizes anti-reverse engineering methods to ensure that you are protected in a manner that cannot be replicated - ever. nokVAULT`s unique nokKERNEL platform is beyond the reach of any disk utility. nokVAULT also securely erases your files and removes all of the data to ensure no traces are left. Unlike other methods of deletion, which can be recovered nokVAULT guarantees your files are completely destroyed and unrecoverable. Machine unique installation, invisible vault and Secure Delete are just a few of nokVAULT features that provide users complete data privacy from the most sophisticated unauthorized intruders.
