Nicole Norfleet reports: Former state employee John Hunt entered an Alford plea Tuesday to charges of breaching thousands of driver’s license files while he worked for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). During a plea settlement hearing in Ramsey County District Court, Hunt admitted that there was sufficient evidence for him to be found guilty…
Category: Breaches
UK: Fostering and adoption agencies routinely put personal data at risk warns Information Commissioner
Tristan Donovan reports: Fostering and adoption agencies are routinely putting sensitive personal information about those they work with at risk, according to an Information Commissioner’s Office report. The ICO examined the data protection work of 10 fostering and adoption agencies in England and some several common problems in how they shared sensitive information with other agencies…
Identity Theft: Trends and Issues
There’s a new report by Kristin Finklea, Specialist in Domestic Security, for the Congressional Research Service. Here’s the Summary: In the current fiscal environment, policymakers are increasingly concerned with securing the economic health of the United States—including combating those crimes that threaten to undermine the nation’s financial stability. Identity theft is one such crime. In 2012, about 12.6 million Americans…
Danger Posed by Student Data Breaches Prompts Action
Benjamin Herold of McClatchy News Service has a must-read report on student privacy and data-sharing. It begins: Privacy advocates say the increased collection, storage, and sharing of educational data pose real threats to children and families, from identify theft to nuisance advertising, misguided profiling to increased surveillance of everyday activities. There is even the potential…