Nicole Hensley reports: The parents of George Zimmerman want comedian Roseanne Barr to pay up $750,000 for emotional damage and other expenses for posting their address on Twitter. Robert and Gladys Zimmerman say the tweet by Barr on March 29, 2012, caused $600,000 in emotional distress, according to federal court documents, after they were forced…
Category: Breaches
DMA leads effort to wind back our data breach notification protections and rights
DMA leads effort to wind back our data breach notification protections Of course, that’s not their headline, but it’s my reading of their attempt to claim that they are “leading” industry in supporting a national data breach notification law. Under their recommendations, which you can read below in their press release and letter to members…
eBay faces MULTIPLE, international PROBES into mega-breach
Coverage of the eBay breach is over on DataBreaches.net, but I thought I’d post one item here in case there’s anyone who still hasn’t heard about it. Brid-Aine Parnell reports: eBay is facing multiple investigations after a security breach that spilled the personal information of 145 million users, along with their passwords, which were encrypted…
MS: 2 more arrested over photo of senator’s bedridden wife
Geoff Pender and Sam R. Hall report: Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the photographing of the bedridden wife of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran. Attorney Mark Mayfield, a vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party and an officer with the Central Mississippi Tea Party, was arrested Thursday by Madison, Miss., police in…