Bruce Carroll writes: In all of this past week’s flurry IRS news: Lois Lerner and other IRS’ officials hard drives crashing, emails showing Lerner targeted Sen. Chuck Grassley, and the IRS Commissioner telling Congress they’ve done nothing wrong — some news got lost in the shuffle. The IRS did do something very wrong, admitted it and paid a significant fine…
Category: Breaches
Carrier IQ Can’t Pause Privacy Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: A judge has rejected an attempt by Carrier IQ and a group of phone manufacturers to delay proceedings in a privacy lawsuit. U.S. District Court Judge Chen in the Northern District of California said in a written ruling that he was “not convinced” that allowing the case to proceed would cause “irreparable…
UK: Andy Coulson guilty over phone hacking as Rebekah Brooks walks free
Lisa O’Carroll reports: David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson is facing jail after being found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones while he was was editing the News of the World. However, Rebekah Brooks, his predecessor in the job walked free from the Old Bailey after she was cleared of all four the charges…
IE: Investigator in court over alleged data protection breach
RTÉ reports: A private investigator has appeared in court on charges of breaching data protection laws, including obtaining and disclosing information from garda records. Michael Gaynor trading as MJG Investigations 38 Beatty Grove, Celbridge faces 72 charges under the Data Protection Acts. It is understood to be the first prosecution of its kind taken by…