The Houstonian is the student newspaper of Sam Houston State University. One of their reporters, Jay R. Jordan, reported a possible privacy leak involving the student government: Allegations of FERPA law violations erupted after student government Senator Troy Ross included SGA Vice President Brooke Hunter’s GPA in an appeal to the SGA Supreme Court but refused…
Category: Breaches
South Korea Strengthens Security Measures for Personal Information
Cynthia O’Donoghue writes: South Korea’s Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs issued an amended version of the Standards of Personal Information Security Measures (the ‘Standards’). These Standards seek to close loopholes and inadequacies in the South Korean data protection law, and to counter the growing number of data breaches, especially those arising from use…
NL: Amersfoort told to pay paedophile €4,000 for publishing his address
Reported by DutchNews.nl: Amersfoort city council has been ordered to pay a convicted paedophile €4,000 compensation after going public with his address last year. The court in Utrecht ruled there were insufficient reasons to justify briefing other people who lived in the same complex or the owners of the daycare centre on the ground floor….
University admissions service broke data laws over targeted advertising
Lucy Ward reports: The universities admissions service, Ucas, broke data protection rules when it signed up teenagers to receive adverts about mobile phones, energy drinks and other products, the information commissioner has ruled. The University and Colleges Admissions Service must now change its application form and privacy policy because of the ruling, which follows an…