Chris Bradford reports: A HOTEL owner allegedly took more than 2,000 videos and images of guests naked and having sex on a hidden camera. The device was found inside one of the rooms of Airbnb host A Jay Allee’s secluded Texas cabin and was apparently made to look like a power adapter for a router, police said….
Category: Breaches
German court rules: CEO to be held personally liable for data privacy violations
Christoph Werkmeister reports: In a recent German case, a court decided that a CEO was personally liable for a data privacy breach after they hired a detective to investigate possible criminal acts by the plaintiff. Given the potential risks, this case raises a number of issues for companies and their boards to consider. This is…
NHS Scotland Covid app rebuked for breaching data privacy laws
Severin Carrell reports: The Scottish government and NHS Scotland have been rebuked for breaching data privacy laws on a Covid vaccine status app downloaded by millions of people. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which polices the UK’s privacy laws, said it had warned the Scottish government and NHS last year that there were serious privacy problems with the app,…
Behind the stalkerware network spilling the private phone data of hundreds of thousands
Zack Whittaker reports: Last October, TechCrunch revealed a consumer-grade spyware security issue that’s putting the private phone data, messages and locations of hundreds of thousands of people, including Americans, at risk. But in this case it’s not just one spyware app exposing people’s phone data. It’s an entire fleet of Android spyware apps that share the same…