Jack Bouboushian reports: ACT and The College Board sell high school students’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, to third parties at 33 cents a head, a class action claims in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Rachel Specter sued ACT Inc. and The College Board, the company behind the SAT and Advanced Placement tests. ACT and…
Category: Breaches
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani report: The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at…
Len Brown affair: Vodafone warns staff on privacy
Amelia Wade reports: Vodafone has sent some of its staff a warning about delving into records after the Herald‘s hunt for the sender of an anonymous and threatening text to Bevan Chuang. The text was sent from an 021 number and warned her not to go public with details of her affair with Auckland Mayor Len…
Aaron’s Rent-To-Own Chain Settles FTC Charges That it Enabled Computer Spying by Franchisees
If you thought the FTC was done with Aaron’s Rent-to-Own when they approved a final order settling charges against rent-to-own companies in April, think again. The FTC just issued this press release yesterday: Aaron’s, Inc., a national, Atlanta-based rent-to-own retailer, has agreed to settle FTC charges that it knowingly played a direct and vital role…