David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt report: The director of national intelligence acknowledged Tuesday that nearly a year after the contractor Edward J. Snowden “scraped” highly classified documents from the National Security Agency’s networks, the technology was not yet fully in place to prevent another insider from stealing top-secret data on a similarly large scale….
Category: Breaches
French Court Rejects Google Appeal in Privacy Case
Sam Schechner reports: Google Inc.posted a notice on its French home page over the weekend telling users that it has been fined €150,000 for privacy violations, after a French court rejected the company’s emergency appeal of the measure. France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s highest administrative court, said Friday that Google had failed to prove its contention that posting…
Hotel Co. Must Face Privacy Suit Over Recorded Calls
A California federal judge on Monday refused to throw out a proposed class action accusing an InterContinental Hotels Group PLC unit of illegally recording consumers’ phone calls to its reservation hotline, finding the plaintiffs had properly stated a claim under the state’s Invasion of Privacy Act. U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins issued an order denying a…
Snoop scandal doesn’t stop Bloomberg
Jamie Dunkley reports: Bloomberg’s “snooping” scandal failed to prevent the financial-data specialist increasing its dominance over Thomson Reuters in 2013 as clients continued to use its $20,000-a-year (£12,000) terminals. The US company, which was founded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg in 1982, was forced into making a series of apologies last May when…