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…
Category: Breaches
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…
Facebook, Google execs cough to their biggest privacy blunders
Iain Thomson reports from RSA: Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a few minutes today discussing at this year’s RSA conference in San Francisco how they attempt to protect your privacy. El Reg asked execs present from the trio of tech giants to name their biggest privacy cockups, and surprisingly two out of the three had an…
House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Information-Sharing Bill
Cat Zakrzewski reports: The House of Representatives today passed The Protecting Cyber Networks Act on a 307-116 bipartisan vote. The bill aims to remove legal barriers so that American companies can share threat information with one another to defend against hacks, such as those that have recently plagued Sony and Target. The bills have broad support from the White House and industry groups, including…