Hannah Spray reports: If anyone did something wrong when a Prince Albert student’s phone was seized and used in a stolen car investigation, it was the police – not school staff, according to a judge’s decision on a lawsuit filed by the student’s family. The grandparents of the student, who was 12 years old at…
Category: Breaches
Privacy breaches: Bad for business, good for jobs
Bill Snyder reports: “You have zero privacy anyway — get over it,” Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy famously quipped back in 1999. But 15 years later, it might be more accurate to say: “You have zero privacy anyway — so cash in on it.” The never-ending intrusions on personal and corporate privacy by government and industry, not…
Student sues U. Montana over alleged privacy rights violations
Alex Sakariassen reports: University of Montana law student Daniel Knudsen filed suit against UM this week over alleged violations of privacy rights. Knudsen’s complaint, filed on behalf of all students enrolled at UM from spring 2010 to the present, claims the university illegally released his and others’ personally identifiable information to Connecticut-based Higher One Holdings,…
Israeli company finds security flaws in Zubie software
Abigail Darlington reports: An Israeli cyber-security team claims it saved Zubie from a data breach that could have put drivers in a serious jam. Zubie, a Charleston-based technology firm, provides software for drivers to track their vehicles’ performance and efficiency. A GPS-enabled device is plugged into the OnBoard Diagnostics hub beneath the steering wheel, which…