Jay Cline of Minnesota Privacy Consultants compiled some interesting data on privacy breach violations. He writes: The European Union is threatening to suspend the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement that U.S. companies depend on to do business with Europe, claiming that America doesn’t enforce its side of the bargain. Any way you cut the data, however,…
Category: Breaches
NZ: Privacy boss calls for rebuilding of faith in Govt agencies
New Zealand’s new privacy commissioner gave an interview on his first day in office, and ONE News covered it: The man charged with safeguarding our privacy says public faith in government agencies needs to be rebuilt. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says he wants to help rebuild public confidence that personal information is safe. “There are…
Once Again, Clapper Defeats Data Breach Class Action
I had noted the Galaria opinion and order over on databreaches.net, but Judy Selby has a discussion of the ruling in terms of the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Clapper that is worth noting here: Article III standing has once again proved to be an insurmountable hurdle for data breach class action plaintiffs…
Alabama asks for license numbers to curb fraudulent returns
Phillip Rawls of Associated Press reports: Alabama is taking a new approach to protecting taxpayers against crooks filing fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identifies. The state Department of Revenue said those filing their individual and joint tax returns electronically should include their driver’s license number or non-driver’s license number and their date of birth….