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…
Category: Breaches
Companies that lose sensitive information should be punished, say UK consumers
brossi writes: UK consumers have called for tougher punishments for companies that lose sensitive information. The vast majority of the 1,000 UK consumers surveyed in a OnePoll study for LogRhythm said not enough is being done to uniformly penalize organisations that suffer data loss. Furthermore, two-thirds of respondents said there should be legislation forcing organisations…
Oregon woman falsely arrested after identity was stolen wins $100K lawsuit
KATU reports from Clackamas County, Oregon: A woman who fought to clear her name after her identity was stolen and she was arrested for crimes she did not commit won a lawsuit against the county and has been awarded over $100,000 in damages. Kimberly Fossen’s story began nearly a decade ago when she lost her…
A good day for the FTC in federal court?
I didn’t get to Newark for oral argument on Wyndham’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s complaint about their data security, but from early media coverage last night, it sounds like things went pretty well for the FTC. From the quotes provided in coverage by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek, it sounds like Judge Salas is not…