William Murphy reports that a Long Island man, 21 year-old Adam Savader, faces up to 30 months in prison when he’s sentenced on March 13 for cyberstalking. Savader pled guilty last week in federal court in Michigan to trying to coerce women into sending him sexually explicit images of themselves. Newsday has the story, but…
Category: Breaches
States Enter $17 Million Multistate Settlement With Google Over Tracking Of Consumers
From NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced his office has entered into multistate a settlement agreement with Google Inc. concerning its unauthorized placement of cookies on computers using Apple Safari Web browsers during 2011 and 2012. Of the $17 million in settlement money, New York will receive $899,580. “Consumers should…
Conspiracy? Saturday edition
I’ve never viewed myself as a conspiracy nut (then again, how many conspiracy nuts have that level of self-awareness?), but I may have just joined the ranks. Jeremy Hammond, a member of Anonymous/LulzSec, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for hacking Stratfor and other entities. Part of his defense was that former member…
Privacy groups seek FTC probe of Google, Yahoo for exposing data to NSA
Jai Vijayan reports: Several advocacy groups are calling for an investigation into Internet companies Yahoo and Google whose networks were secretly accessed by the National Security Agency (NSA). In a letter sent Wednesday, the groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) find out how the NSA could to extract so much data without the knowledge of…