An edition of BBC1’s Panorama has breached the Ofcom code after a man who was supposed to remain anonymous was identified by his friends. The man, a gambling addict known only as Mr C, had his face obscured and he was filmed from a number of angles in an effort to stop him being recognisable,…
Category: Breaches
Dutch police to be given permission to hack into foreign servers
Duncan Geere reports: The government of the Netherlands has announced plans to grant police permission to hack into computers located abroad in an attempt to fight online crime. The powers, which also give police the ability to install spyware, read emails and delete files, will be subject to the oversight of a judge but critics…
EPA Continues to Release Producers’ Personal Information
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is appalled to learn that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to illegally release information on cattle operations to the activist groups Earth Justice, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In this latest action, the agency again admitted it had released too much information on…
MN seeks dismissal of suits over DNR data breach
Associated Press reports: The state of Minnesota has asked a federal judge to dismiss five lawsuits filed on behalf of several people who say their driver’s license data was improperly accessed by a Department of Natural Resources employee. The attorney general’s office argued in motions filed Tuesday that the state isn’t liable under a federal…