Seth Rosenblatt reports on the fall-out from recent disclosures of NSA surveillance and use of exploits: Information security professionals are not unified in their interpretation of Alexander’s attempt at a mea culpa at last week’s Black Hat conference here. Alex Stamos, a network infrastructure and security expert and the chief technical officer of Artemis, the company proposing…
Category: Breaches
Indiana Lawyer Is Disbarred for Tell-All Book That Dished Private Info About Former Client
Samson Habte reports: The Indiana Supreme Court July 17 disbarred a lawyer who published a book that spilled secrets about a former client and romantic partner who used to be a high-ranking political official (In re Smith, Ind., No. 29S00-1201-DI-8, 7/17/13). Most of the ethics infractions the court found were based on what attorney Joseph Stork…
Inland Revenue, BT and British Gas face leaked data claims
Cynthia O’Murchu and Elizabeth Rigby report: The UK’s tax office, British Telecom and British Gas have unwittingly provided sensitive personal data to private investigators using illegal methods, according to a report penned by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Private investigators have been able to “blag” bank account information from British Gas, obtain details of individuals’…
Class action activist asks SCOTUS to review charity-only settlements
Alison Frankel reports that Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action and lawyers from Baker Hostetler filed a petition for a writ of certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to review the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ approval of a $9.5 million settlement of class action allegations that Facebook’s now-dismantled “Beacon” program violated users’ privacy…