Lorraine Bailey reports: A debt collection agency’s disclosure of a consumer’s account number on the face of an envelope is an invasion of privacy, the 3rd Circuit ruled. Read more on Courthouse News.
Category: Breaches
Voiceprints: Banks Go High-Tech to Fight Identity Theft
Raphael Satter of AP reports: The caller said her home had burned down and her husband had been badly hurt in the blaze. On the telephone with her bank, she pleaded for a replacement credit card at her new address. “We lost everything,” she said. “Can you send me a card to where we’re staying…
Snapchat defends itself as anonymous poster announces there will be no “snappening”
Telling users that if their private pictures have been breached, it’s their own fault for using a third-party service does not strike this privacy blogger as a great PR move – even if a”tough user love” approach deflects some threats of lawsuits or blame. Yet that’s what Snapchat has seemingly done in the wake of another breach….
comScore Personal Data Collection Class Action Settlement
From ClassActionNews: Filing Deadline: Tue, 2014-12-30 Case Status: Open Eligibility: You are eligible if at any time since 2005 you had comScore’s data collection software downloaded and installed on your computer. There are various ways to determine whether comScore’s software is or was installed on your computer. If the software is currently installed, you can look…