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…
Category: Breaches
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…
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…