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…
Category: Breaches
UK: Financial firms are responsible for data trading
Tony Hazell nails it in a column that begins: The revelation that intimate financial and medical details are being sold to firms with dubious intentions should have sent shockwaves through the financial community. But it probably will not. The Daily Mail last week revealed that financial details were being sold for as little as 5p…
Google bans 200 dodgy extensions for data snooping
Yesterday, this site had noted a report from ScrapeSentry about an extension that appeared problematic to them. Now Nicole Kobie reports: Google has yanked 200 extensions from the Chrome store, after they were revealed to be stealing sensitive data from millions of users. The move follows two reports about browser extensions, the small, often free tools that can…
Google Legal maneuver against Identity Theft Risk Lawsuit Fails
J Maslow reports: Google’s recent move to get a privacy lawsuit filed against it dismissed has failed in the San Jose US Federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges that the search engine giant has violated the privacy rights of the users of its electronic payment system, Google Wallet. The suit claims that Google breached users…