Elaine Edwards reports: Minister for Heritage Heather Humphreys admonished the Data Protection Commissioner for comments made to the press after that office ordered her department to remove records of births, marriages and deaths from its genealogy website over concerns they would be used for criminal purposes. Read more on Irish Times.
Category: Breaches
Samaritans Radar app taken down after privacy concerns
Jamie Harris reports: Emotional support charity Samaritans has suspended its new Twitter app due to privacy concerns. The Radar app monitored Twitter accounts to alert users of friends or family who may be showing signs of depression through their posts. Read more on Digital Spy.
AU: Canberrans’ privacy compromised in security camera hack
Earlier today, I posted a link to a disturbing report about security cameras that were less than secure because of default passwords. Here’s a story with an AU slant on the issue. Ben Westcott and Melanie Kembrey report: On a warm summers day in the ACT a couple cheekily kiss among the shelves of a…
Getting Caught Up: News You May Have Missed
Below are links to news developments or commentaries published during the two days that PogoWasRight.org was unavailable. They are semi-organized by topic, with some overlap between sections. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic, who helped me keep track of what I needed to save while the site was suffering from Table Dysfunction Disorder: Businesses: Suspect in rape/abduction…