Matthew Goldstein reports: A California law student and a Virginia man dated for about six months after meeting through an online dating service. The fallout from the breakup, however, has gone on far longer, as the former boyfriend faces federal criminal charges over posting nude selfies and a sexually explicit video of the woman on…
Category: Breaches
UK: Google to change privacy policy after ICO investigation; signs undertaking
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this press release announcing that Google has signed an undertaking to improve its privacy policy to clarify how it collects and uses personal data in the UK. The undertaking arises from Google’s consolidation of its privacy policies in 2012: The ICO has required Google to sign a formal undertaking to…
How Cancer Researchers Can Steal Your Identity
Joshua A. Krisch reports: Scientists found that four pieces of personal data—seemingly innocent things, like where you ate lunch last week or how much you paid for your new hat—is all it takes to steal your identity. Although we often think of identity theft as a hacker’s game, a new study shows that even public datasets used by…
No jail time for cop who stole and shared suspects’ nudes
Miles Klee reports a less-than-impressive sentence in a privacy breach case involving a police officer: Weeks after the state secured its first conviction under a new revenge porn law, a California Highway Patrol officer pled no contest to felony charges over duplicating and sharing intimate photos found on the phones of women in his custody—and got three years’ probation. Sean Harrington, who resigned…