The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand is taking a new approach to responding to the many privacy complaints they get each year: We need to recognise that even where there has been an interference with privacy, there may be a relationship that needs to continue. Even if there is no relationship to…
Category: Breaches
AU: Telstra ordered to pay AU$18K over privacy breach
Leon Spencer reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has ordered Telstra to pay AU$18,000 and apologise to a judge after it failed to tell him it had published his details in the White Pages directory. According to the OAIC, the unnamed judge — identified only as “DK” — contacted Telstra to have a phone…
FTC sues debt broker for exposing consumers’ debt portfolios online
Dan McCue reports: Debt broker Bayview Solutions LLC posted the debt portfolios of 28,000 consumers online, including their bank account numbers and other identifying information, the Federal Trade Commission claims in a federal lawsuit. Bayview Solutions was established in 2008 and does business as Bayview Risk Management Capital and Bayview Commercial Recovery. It’s primary business is buying and selling portfolios of…
More Former iPhone Users Suing Apple, Claiming iMessage “Intercepts” Texts Meant For Android Phones
Mary Beth Quirk reports: Although Apple has since claimed to have fixed an issue afflicting many former iPhone users, who claimed they failed to receive messages meant for them from friends once they switched to Android phones, yet another group of customers are suing the company, claiming iMessage intercepted their messages. The newest lawsuit, brought by three…