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Germany’s justice minister plans new data fencing law

Posted on August 8, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

From The Local: Federal justice minister Heiko Maas will seek to criminalize the buying and selling of stolen data following Tuesday’s news of the mass theft of login details by a Russian hacker group. “At the moment we’re checking how we can close criminal loopholes in the area of data fencing,” the Social Democrat (SPD)…

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Miami-Dade County school board moves to block student ID theft

Posted on August 7, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Christina Veiga reports: With identity theft on the rise, the Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday moved to strengthen its protection of students’ personal information. Board members unanimously agreed to direct the school district’s police and technology departments to craft ways to safeguard Social Security numbers and other sensitive student records. The proposal came from board…

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Brazilian Web Provider Fined $1.6 Million For Selling Browsing Data to Advertisers

Posted on August 4, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Ed Taylor reports; In a first-of-its-kind enforcement action in Brazil, the Justice Ministry recently fined the country’s largest telecommunications company Oi $1.6 million for invading the privacy of subscribers to its broadband Internet service by without consent tracking their Web usage and selling the information to behavioral advertisers. Amaury Oliva, director of the Justice Ministry’s…

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Wearable users tracked with Raspberry Pi

Posted on August 3, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

BBC reports: People who use wearable gadgets to monitor their health or activity can be tracked with only $70 (£40) of hardware, research suggests. The work, carried out by security firm Symantec, used a Raspberry Pi computer to grab data broadcast by the gadgets. The snooping Pi was taken to parks and sporting events where…

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