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…
Category: Breaches
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…
BC’s Privacy Commissioner Releases Report on Government Privacy Breaches
British Columbia’s Privacy Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has released a report on privacy breach management in government ministries. The report, An Examination of BC Government’s Privacy Breach Management, examines the degree to which government is fulfilling its duty to respond to, and properly manage, its privacy breaches. From the executive summary of the report: The examination revealed that…
Mexico says may sanction Google over data protection breach
Et tu, Mexico? Reuters reports: Mexico’s federal transparency body said it had initiated proceedings to impose sanctions on the Mexican unit of Google Inc for possible breach of the country’s data protection law. The Federal Institute for Information Access and Data Protection (IFAI) said it had taken the step following a request from an unidentified…