Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
Category: Breaches
Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers
Zack Whittaker reports: A consumer-grade spyware app has been found running on the check-in systems of at least three Wyndham hotels across the United States, TechCrunch has learned. The app, called pcTattletale, stealthily and continually captured screenshots of the hotel booking systems, which contained guest details and customer information. Thanks to a security flaw in…
Court Rejects Claims that Website’s Live Chat Feature Violates California’s Prohibitions on Wiretapping and Eavesdropping
Amy Gordon, Leslie Shanklin, and Jeff Warshafsky of Proskauer write: In recent years, the “live chat” feature often used on consumer-facing websites has become the subject of lawsuits brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). In particular, there have been a surge of putative class actions challenging the use of this feature under…
Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook
Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it might be illegal By: Colin Lecher and Ross Teixeira When someone applies for a mortgage, they trust a home loan lender or mortgage broker with some of…