Molly Quell reports: Austria was wrong to force a daily newspaper to hand over information about anonymous website commenters, Europe’s top rights court ruled Tuesday. The European Court of Human Rights sided with Der Standard, finding anonymous comments critical of politicians on the newspaper’s website were covered by freedom of expression. It says Austrian authorities were…
Category: Breaches
U.K.: The ICO fines the Cabinet Office £500,000 for data protection breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Cabinet Office £500,000 for disclosing postal addresses of the 2020 New Year Honours recipients online. The ICO found that the Cabinet Office failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to prevent the unauthorised disclosure of people’s information. This is a breach of data protection…
UK watchdog’s punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private
Gareth Corfield reports: Blackbaud was given a private slap on the wrist by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after paying off criminals who stole users’ financial data from the cloud CRM biz’s servers. The astonishingly mild sanction was revealed in a Freedom-of-Information response after senior data protection specialist Jon Baines at London law firm Mishcon de Reya asked…
SUNY Geneseo student to face hacker in court two years after explicit photos were leaked
Carla Rogner reports: Natalie Claus is looking forward to graduating from SUNY Geneseo in December, but first she is focusing on another date on her calendar. On Wednesday, Claus will face a stranger in court, David Mondore, who hacked her snapchat account in December 2019 and sent an explicit photo saved in her private folder to…