Natalia Gulyaeva, Maria Sedykh and Bret Cohen write: On 24 February, the Russian State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament) adopted in the first reading a draft law introducing amendments to the Russian Code on Administrative Offences (the Draft Law) that would increase the amount of the fines imposed for violating Russian data protection laws…
Category: Breaches
U. of Montana privacy lawsuit moves forward
Alex Sakariassen reports: Law student Daniel Knudsen’s suit against the University of Montana over alleged privacy violations is moving forward following an unsuccessful motion by the university last month to have the case dismissed. Knudsen stands firm in his belief that UM erred in passing his personal information to Higher One, a private bank contracted…
Dear Software Vendors: Please Stop Trying to Intercept Your Customers’ Encrypted Traffic
Joseph Bonneau and Jeremy Gillula write: Over the past week many more details have emerged about the HTTPS-breaking Superfish software that Lenovo pre-installed on its laptops for several months. As is often the case with breaking security incidents, most of what we know has come from security engineers volunteering their time to study the problem and…
NZ: Woman complains telecommunications company allowed a fraudulent account to be opened in her name – and it had an impact!
Here’s another privacy complaint recently disclosed by the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office. The gist is that a customer complained to a telecom after she received a collection notice and discovered that someone had opened an account in her name using her name and date of birth. The telecom told the collections agency it was…