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…
Category: Breaches
Privacy bug exposed 93,788 protected Twitter accounts to snoopers
Graham Cluley reports: Twitter has fixed an embarrassing bug that impacted 93,788 users of the service, who mistakenly believed that they had control over who could see their micro-blogging updates. […] According to a brief blog post by Twitter, the privacy hole has been present since November 2013, and has exposed the updates of 93,788 accounts that…
FL: Keeping I.D. Safe Act Passes In House Committee
Space Coast Daily reports: The House Regulatory Affairs Committee today unanimously passed the Keeping I.D. Safe (K.I.D.S.) Act, a priority of Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam to keep Florida’s children safe from identity theft. More than 50,000 children in Florida become victims of identity theft every year and more than $100,000 million is stolen every…
Newsweek article gets backlash for privacy invasion
An article on Newsweek by Leah McGrath Goodman is getting a lot of negative feedback. In her piece on the creator of Bitcoin, Goodman repeatedly acknowledges Satoshi Nakamoto’s desire for – and efforts to protect his – personal privacy, yet the piece provides a lot of personal details on him, including a picture of his home…