Kelly Fiveash reports: BT has been cleared of a serious data protection violation by the UK’s privacy watchdog, The Register has learned. A probe into the one-time national telco’s webmail system was carried out by the Information Commissioner’s Office after a whistleblower exposed evidence that appeared to show BT’s customer email accounts were being compromised by spammers. The…
Category: Breaches
The Spying Game: How Ireland’s top banks snoop on us
Simon Rowe reports: The normally secret world of Ireland’s private detective industry is coming under unprecedented scrutiny as banks and insurers admit to using covert surveillance in legal rows with their customers. Read more on Independent.ie
Apple Rebuts China’s Claims of Privacy Invasion
After claims in China’s state run media last week that location tracking features in the forthcoming upgrades to the iPhone’s software package constitute a threat to China’s national security, Apple has hit back and counter-argued China’s claims are baseless. “Our customers want and expect their mobile devices to be able to quickly and reliably determine…
Federal Trade Commission 2014 Privacy and Data Security Update
From the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) is an independent U.S. law enforcement agency charged with protecting consumers and enhancing competition across broad sectors of the economy. The FTC’s primary legal authority comes from the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive practices in the marketplace. The FTC also has…