Anusha Bradley reports: The New Zealand victim of alleged sexual assault by a Korean diplomat says ACC call centre staff divulged information about his sensitive claim to someone claiming to represent the Korean embassy, and he lives in constant fear it could happen again. The man, whose case made headlines in 2020 and sparked an…
Category: Breaches
Scottsdale School Board Member Publicized Parents’ Social Security Numbers, Divorce Proceedings, Financial Records In Effort To Track Outspoken Parents
Chrissy Clark reports: Parents with children enrolled in the Scottsdale Unified School District were appalled when they uncovered that one of the district’s school board members had editing access to a Google Drive that included personal pictures and information on a slew of outspoken parents, including their social security numbers, a divorce proceeding, and financial…
UK Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in iPhone tracking case
Daniel Cooper reports: Google has escaped the risk of a lawsuit after violating the privacy of around 5.4 million iPhone users in the UK. The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that it cannot allow a US-style Class Action suit to be lobbed at the search giant after it deliberately created a workaround to track Safari users. The judgment,…
Activists leak 600 hours of mostly Dallas police helicopter footage after city’s 22 terabyte loss of criminal case data
David Lee reports: Data transparency activists released a massive 600-hour leak of mostly Dallas Police Department helicopter footage, raising more questions about the city’s data security protocols three months after DPD admitted to a 22-terabyte deletion of case data that resulted in the release of criminal defendants awaiting trial. Distributed Denial of Secrets — a…