While I’ve been busy watching the FTC’s enforcement action Wyndham over data security, Wyndham was apparently also dealing with a class-action lawsuit involving privacy. Law360 reports: Howard Johnson International Inc. and Wyndham Hotel Group LLC have agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a class action accusing the hotel chains of surreptitiously recording customer phone…
Category: Breaches
Mass strip search of U.S. students by Canadian guards broke policy, documents show
Alex Boutilier reports: A busload of American college and university students was strip-searched by Canadian border guards three years ago in an incident that violated government policy and may have contravened the Charter of Rights of Freedoms, documents show. According to an internal Canadian Border Services Agency report that was obtained by Metroland Media and…
Ca: Cell Phone Privacy Breaches: Forgiven – For Now
Emily MacKinnon discusses a recent decision of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal concerning cellphone privacy. She writes, “Employers should take note of the former without counting on the latter:” Decision In R. v. Adeshina, the court allowed evidence of text messages that had been obtained from an indiscriminate “data dump” of a cell phone, even though those texts…
Intuit lawsuit alleges firm facilitated fraud by lax security
Marisa Kendall reports: In a suit filed Monday against Intuit Inc., plaintiffs lawyers claim lax security protections in the company’s TurboTax software are to blame for a recent spike in fraudulent tax returns. Intuit didn’t take adequate steps to stop criminals from using TurboTax to steal customers’ personal information, file false returns on their behalf and…