Nic Christensen reports: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has today ruled that Southern Cross breached rules on personal information and privacy in a report on a dispute over the sale of a house on November 12, 2013. According to the adjudication the report “intruded upon” the privacy of the couple living at the house by filming…
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DOJ to pay $134K over fake Facebook profile
David McCabe reports: The Justice Department will pay $134,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who was impersonated online by a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer without her knowledge. The settlement was revealed in a court filing made available on Tuesday. It was first reported by the Associated Press. The woman, Sondra Arquiett,…
Two Million Cars Using Wireless Insurance Dongle Vulnerable to Hacking
Swati Khandelwal writes: …. Since 2008, US-based Progressive Insurance has used the SnapShot device in more than two million vehicles. The little device monitors and tracks users’ driving behavior by collecting vehicle location and speed records, in order to help determine if they qualify for lower rates. However, the security researcher Corey Thuen has revealed that the dongle is insecure and performs…
Proposed Indiana law would raise bar for security and privacy requirements
As I had noted over on DataBreaches.net, Indiana’s Attorney General has proposed a data protection and data breach bill that has some interesting provisions. Hunton & Williams provides their own summary of the bill: Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has prepared a new bill that, although styled a “security breach” bill, would impose substantial new…