Jason Tecza did not give up. The former law student at University of San Francisco had sued the university pro se after his testing accommodation plan was accidentally included in materials given to a number of his peers in a course. One of the causes of action was public disclosure of private facts. Other causes of…
Category: Breaches
NZ: CYF blackmailed after privacy breach
Vernon Small reports: Child, Youth and Family (CYF) has mistakenly sent private details about a young woman to the wrong person, but says it is being blackmailed by the woman who received them. CYF head Bernadine Mackenzie said the agency has taken legal action in relation to the Family Court document to protect the privacy…
Sniffing or Spying: Court Takes Up Google Street View Suit
At first I thought this was an old news story showing up in my news reader, but it’s not. Scott Graham reports: The Federal Communications Commission couldn’t do it. Thirty-eight state attorneys general couldn’t do it. On Monday, Elizabeth Cabraser will go before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, personally seeking what…
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
As you can imagine, I’m still getting caught up with all the NSA-related privacy and surveillance news this week. I’ll have more on that later, but it seems that the whistleblower has been identified. Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras that he is Edward Snowden: a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and…