There’s an interesting debate afoot about TechCrunch‘s decision to publish selected documents it received from someone who hacked into the email accounts of Twitter CEO Evan Williams and other Twitter employees. There’s already been some good coverage of the journalism ethics side of the debate, but I wanted to weigh in with some detail on…
Category: Breaches
In China, controversial BBS post by police
A police officer in Henan Province has sparked controversy by posting information about a wanted suspect on a BBS forum yesterday. The officer asked the online community to provide clues on the suspect’s whereabouts. He even included a picture of the suspect that was taken from a bank surveillance video. Zhao Guanyang, the officer who…
Kaiser Bellflower fined again for privacy breach
The Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower has been hit with a $187,500 fine for failing for a second time to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient information, state pubic health officials said today. [Updated at 3 p.m.: A spokesman for the hospital said the fine was part of the ongoing investigation into employees improperly accessing…
Builder blacklist boss hit with £5,000 fine
Ian Kerr, the man behind the Consulting Association, which held and maintained a blacklist of builders, has been fined £5,000 by Knutsford Crown Court. The company was raided by the Information Commissioner’s Office in March when the watchdog made its first ever use of an Enforcement Notice to shut it down. Read more in The…