Daniel Hurst reports: Australia’s top immigration bureaucrat has told a Senate committee he is yet to make a call on whether asylum seekers will be told that his department released their confidential personal details on its website. Martin Bowles, secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, characterised the data breach as “regrettable” but…
Category: Breaches
Attorney General seeks national standard to protect against identity theft
Peter Cooney reports: Attorney General Eric Holder, citing the recent massive data theft at retailer Target Corp, urged Congress on Monday to enact a national standard for notifying consumers about such breaches. “This would empower the American people to protect themselves if they are at risk of identity theft,” Holder said in a statement urging…
MN: Federal judge throws out 3 major driver’s license snooping cases
Rochelle Olson reports: A U.S. District Court judge on Friday threw out three major cases involving hundreds of allegations of improper public-employee snooping into driver’s license data, saying no federal law was violated and driver information is not private. In three similar orders, Judge David Doty said information on drivers’ licenses such as eye color,…
New Zealand’s new Privacy Commissioner ‘disturbed’ by responses
3News reports that NZ’s new privacy commissioner, John Edwards, is concerned – and disturbed – by how people respond to privacy breaches involving others’ information, such as misaddressed mail that they receive. “No right minded member of the community would think when they stumbled across a wallet containing identifying details and $1000 that they had…