Okay, this is really bad, on multiple levels. Brendan Foley and Jayne Miller report: Tewksbury Public Schools face angry parental backlash following the release of private student information online last week. A document included in a 222-page School Committee packet remained online for the better part of a week, before being taken down Monday. Awareness…
Category: Breaches
Victims speak out after revenge porn site operator is sentenced to 18 years
Kelly McLaughlin reports: Victims of a man who operated a ‘revenge porn’ website and then charged victims to remove nude images and their personal information spoke out after the man was sentenced on Friday. Kevin Bollaert, 28, was sentenced to 18 years in state prison after he was convicted in February of 21 counts of…
Jay Edelson’s Class-Action Privacy Suits Could Make Him Tech’s Least Friended Man
You can’t buy this kind of publicity. The New York Times has a big article on Edelson, PC – a law firm that is prolific in filing privacy class action lawsuits.
UK: Your privacy for sale: From plastic surgery to eating disorders, medical secrets sold to the cold call sharks
Katherine Faulkner, Paul Bentley, and Lucy Osborne continue the Daily Mail‘s reporting on the sale of personal information in the UK: A firm linked to the sale of NHS patient data is offering details of eating disorder sufferers for just 12p a head, the Mail can reveal today. It has also offered to supply names…