For the past few years, the case of Tony Omos, a Nigerian asylum seeker, has made headlines in Iceland. Part of the scandal involved Gísli Freyr Valdórsson, who was an assistant to the Interior Minister. Gísli Freyr was eventually convicted of leaking a Ministry document containing sensitive personal information and slander about Omos to the media in November, 2013. Gísli Freyr…
Category: Breaches
Tell the FTC: Craig Brittain Should Not Get a Slap on the Wrist for his Revenge Porn Site
Adam Steinbaugh, who has been all over this case from the get-go, writes: Last month, the FTC announced it intends to enter into a consent agreement with Craig Brittain, the operator of revenge porn site “Is Anybody Down?” Brittain pretended to be a woman on Craigslist to deceive women into sending him nude photos, mocked their pleas to remove the photos, then concocted an ‘independent’…
AU: PJCIS pushes for mandatory data breach notification
Allie Coyne reports: The parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the Government’s data retention bill has put its support behind the long-mooted introduction of a mandatory data breach notification scheme. The committee made the recommendation today in its report on the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 [pdf]. Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has long pushed for the introduction…
Judge Hints at Dismissal in Hulu Privacy Case
Maria Dinzeo reports: In grappling with online video privacy litigation invoking a decades-old privacy law, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said at a hearing Thursday that she will likely side with online streaming service Hulu that it did not disclose its users’ identities and viewing preferences to Facebook. “It just doesn’t feel like the Bork…