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….
Category: Breaches
Spy Chief Says Snowden Took Advantage of ‘Perfect Storm’ of Security Lapses
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….
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…