British journalist Catherine Bennett takes Julian Assange out to the woodshed over disclosure of personal information a commentary that begins: The collaboration has been a long time in coming, but so close is the current working relationship between WikiLeaks and the Daily Mail that it is becoming difficult to believe that the two organisations were ever at odds. Hardly any…
Category: Breaches
UK: Your crash details for sale: Police probe car insurance giants selling data to cold callers
Sean Poulter reports: Insurers were being probed by police last night over the illegal sale of customer data. The scam involves brokers passing the personal details of car accident victims to claims management companies. The ‘cash for crash’ firms then cold-call clients to tout an injury compensation service. Read more on Daily Mail.
Ca: Woman accused of spying via webcams, harassing children
CBC News reports: A Quebec woman is facing criminal charges for allegedly taking over people’s computers remotely, spying on them through their web cameras and harassing them through their computer speakers. Valérie Gignac, a 27-year-old from Saint-Alphonse-de-Rodriguez, Que., appeared in court today and was charged with four counts related to the unauthorized use of a computer…
IN: TRAI betrays privacy
The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week on DataBreaches.net: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running Trai are ignorant…