Robert Kittle reports: The South Carolina House gave its final approval Wednesday to a bill to protect children from identity theft by allowing their parents to put security freezes on their children’s credit. Right now, there’s no way to do that because, since children don’t have credit, they don’t have credit reports on which to…
Category: Breaches
Arrest of secret-leaking ex-Microsoftie raises Hotmail privacy concerns
I reported the criminal complaint about ex-Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo over on DataBreaches.net, but one aspect of the case has raised privacy concerns – that Microsoft searched the contents of his Hotmail account for evidence that he was providing trade secrets to a blogger who had been leaking information about Windows. There was no indication…
Ca: Federal student loan privacy breach class action suit certified
The Telegram reports: A class action lawsuit over a Canada Student Loans privacy breach has been certified by the Federal Court of Canada, says Newfoundland and Labrador lawyer Bob Buckingham. Buckingham, based in St. John’s, is one of he lead counsels on the national case, which centres on the loss of a hard drive by…
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges that Aaron’s Inc. Allowed Franchisees to Spy on Consumers via Rental Computers
From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges thatAaron’s Inc., a national rent-to-own retailer, knowingly played a direct and vital role in its franchisees’ installation and use of software on rental computers that secretly monitored consumers, including taking webcam pictures of them in their…