Craig Timberg reports: Before #Ubergate recedes entirely from the news, let’s pause on one aspect of the story that hasn’t gotten much attention so far: the cybersecurity risk of collecting massive troves of private travel information in online databases. Imagine for a second that your job is to gather intelligence on government officials in Washington, or financiers in London, or entrepreneurs…
Category: Breaches
Uber executive ‘disciplined’ for privacy violation after tracking the journey of a journalist took using ‘God View’ tool
Associated Press and Mail Online report: Uber Technologies has confirmed it has taken ‘disciplinary action’ against one of its general managers who was being investigating for violating the popular car-booking service’s privacy policies by snooping on a reporter’s ride. Josh Mohrer, general manager of Uber’s New York office, was accused of using a company tracking…
Solove & Schwartz: Privacy and Security Developments 2014 Issue 1
Daniel Solove and Paul M. Schwartz write: We spend a lot of time staying up to date so we can update our casebooks and reference books, so we thought we would share with you some of the interesting news and resources we’re finding. We plan to post a series of posts like this one throughout the year. What…
UK: Former Newcastle Journal editor to appeal fine for breaching anonymity order
Prolific North has an update to a breach previously noted on this blog: The former editor of the Newcastle Journal has launched an appeal after being fined for breaching an anonymity order in a child sex case. Brian Aitken was last week fined £1,600 after the Trinity Mirror-owned title published a story naming the school…