CBC News reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says Horizon School Division needs to make some changes after two privacy breaches involving students. Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson said staff at Ituna school knew of the breaches, but have done nothing about them. In one case the school had been using paper it had recycled in the office,…
Category: Breaches
Hacker group targets Woodstock police sergeant
Chelsea McDougall reports that Anonymous has started a Twitter campaign targeting a police sergeant in the Woodstock (Illinois) Police Department: An international hacker group caught wind of an ongoing scandal at the Woodstock Police Department and has launched an aggressive Twitter campaign to get a sergeant there fired. On its Twitter page, Anonymous is asking…
LinkedIn Seeks Dismissal of Users’ Lawsuit Over E-Mail Hacking
Linda Sandler reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD:US), which runs a 259 million-member network for professionals, asked a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of hacking into users’ address books to lure people to the site. The suit is “meritless” because members consented to terms allowing LinkedIn to send invitations to their contacts,…
Bulgaria opposition alarms EU institutions over its claim on personal data abuse
Focus reports: Oppositional Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) party has sent a signal to the European institutions and the biggest European parties to inform them about its claim filed to the Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Commission, the press office of the party announced. The claim comes in connection with the information about illegal…