While a breach involving tax refund fraud would normally get posted to the companion blog, DataBreaches.net, here’s a case where a data breach and the investigators’ surveillance tools collide. Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports: The federal government’s use of a “stingray” device to track down a suspected ID thief has become an issue in…
Category: Breaches
Macau Office for Personal Data Protection penalizes entities for breaches
Sum Choi reports on how Macau’s Office for Personal Data Protection has imposed fines in some cases of data protection violations: Wynn Macau has been fined MOP 20,000 (U.S. $2502.28) for unauthorized transfers of hotel guests’ personal data to its parent company in the U.S. The details included customer identities, shopping, and entertainment records. Sands…
Iowa House OKs bill making identity theft a felony
Associated Press reports: The minimum charge for identity theft would be increased to a felony under legislation approved Monday by the Iowa House. Current law allows offenders to be charged on a sliding scale, from an aggravated misdemeanor to a class D felony. Offenders commit a felony if the value of what they purchased with…
FAA Contractor Off Hook In Worker Privacy Suit
Law360 reports: A New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday that government contractor Magellan Health Services Inc. didn’t violate the federal Right to Privacy Act when it informed the Federal Aviation Administration about an FAA employee’s alleged drinking problems, saying the act applies only to federal agencies. Read more about the opinion in Repetto v. Magellan Health Services on…