Robert Gregory of Maddocks writes about an AU case: A complainant has been awarded $7500 by the Federal Privacy Commissioner as a result of highly private personal information about him being included in an Information Pack for School Council members. The case sends a clear message to schools that they should carefully consider whether to…
Category: Breaches
Man gets 5 years in prison for recording 25 women at Cobb salons
Alexis Stevens reports: A registered sex offender will return to prison for secretly videotaping women in the restrooms at two Cobb County salons, the District Attorney said Monday. Mark Allan Storch, 56, of Atlanta, must spend five years of his 20-year sentence in prison, Superior Court Judge Gregory Poole ruled Monday morning. When Storch is released from prison,…
Breitbart leaks info on members of GameJournosPros mail list
Milo Yiannopoulos reports: Last week, Breitbart News revealed a secret video game journalist mailing list used by a clique of influential writers, editors, and bloggers, some of whom attempted to bully their colleagues with it in an attempt to shape the news agenda for political purposes. We can today reveal the complete list of journalists, some 150 key industry figures, on…
NL: School tablets company found to violate student privacy
Telecompaper reports some great student privacy protection by the Dutch privacy regulator: The Dutch privacy regulator CBP has found that a company renting tablets to schools violated the privacy of students. Snappet, the company that rents tablets with built-in apps to over 400 primary schools, was using personal data on the devices to compare students…