Rita Panahi reports: A G-string clad mother of three has become the accidental attraction in a real estate advertising campaign for a house sale in Mt Martha. An ambitious agent enlisted a drone to take an aerial photograph of the property, which includes a sweeping image of the beach. But the picture also captured small business…
Category: Breaches
Bad Idea: Overdisclosing People’s Positive STD Status–Doe v. Successfulmatch
Venkat Balasubramani has an interesting analysis and commentary on a privacy lawsuit that’s not the run-of-the-mill lawsuit. I had noted this lawsuit previously on this blog (here) after a previous lawsuit failed. Venkat writes: This is a privacy lawsuit brought by people who signed up for a dating site (Positive Singles) for people with STDs. Plaintiffs…
Ca: Staff didn’t breach student’s privacy by reading text, judge rules
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…
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…