In response to concerns over the Environmental Protection Agency’s release of livestock producers’ personal information (previously described here and here), the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued this press release last week: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with U.S. Sens. John Thune…
Category: Breaches
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Six Million Email Addresses and Telephone Numbers
Kara Swisher reports: Facebook reported on Friday a bug in its system “that may have allowed some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them.” The bug, which was reported via Facebook’s crowdsourced, White Hat security researcher program,…
Did they ask Google?
Cryptome was visited by the U.S. Secret Service this week over personal information about former President G. W. Bush’s family that had been hacked and leaked online by “Guccifer.” As Cryptome notes, although Cryptome removed the list, the original source of Cryptome’s mirror of the Bush family contact list is still online. I checked the…
IE: Creche wants live monitoring of children despite privacy concerns
A creche at the centre of recent controversy over the alleged mistreatment of children is seeking approval for live CCTV monitoring of its facilities despite data protection concerns. Links Childcare wrote to parents yesterday saying it had the system in place last week but had to stop it when they discovered a “security flaw”. Data…