Kelly Ip reports: A smartphone application providing background checks for users has been seriously breaching the personal privacy law, but the company has not stopped disclosing the data through its website. Allan Chiang Yam-wang, privacy commissioner for personal data, said Glorious Destiny Investment stopped the service seven days after being warned on July 31. But…
Category: Breaches
How A Creep Hacked A Baby Monitor To Say Lewd Things To A 2-Year-Old
Kashmir Hill writes: Before I hacked a stranger’s smart home, I asked for permission. An anonymous creep who hacked a Texas family’s baby monitor was not as polite. ABC News reports that a Houston couple heard an unfamiliar voice talking to their sleeping 2-year-old daughter on Saturday night and realized that a stranger had taken control of their…
Lessons From Recent Trends In Privacy Class Actions
Jason M. Weinstein of Steptoe & Johnson reviews recent litigation trends. His sympathies seem clearly with the businesses and not government regulators or states seeking to protect consumers: Nearly every day we read about another data breach at yet another major company in the United States. Yet even more disturbing than the increase in data…
Student sues Best Buy and Geek Squad over nude pics
Here we go again. Ed Snoch has the story: A University of Alabama art student is suing Best Buy Corp. and its affiliate Geek Squad over allegations employees of the Tuscaloosa store posted nude photos of her on the Internet that they improperly obtained while performing maintenance on her computer. “This conduct was utterly reprehensible…