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…
Category: Breaches
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…
Viral Tumblr blog exposes innocent users of stolen laptop
A month after losing his laptop to theft, London-based Dom Deltorto was surprised when the tracking software on his laptop tracked it in Tehran, Iran. And much to his surprise, the laptop even began sending back images of the family who it seems purchased his laptop and were now using it . tech2 reports that although…
SEC and CFTC Will Now Enforce Identify Theft ‘Red Flag’ Rules
Joe Mont reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted rules requiring broker-dealers, mutual funds, investment advisers and other “financial institutions” and “creditors” to adopt programs for detecting and responding to cases of identity theft. The rules, adopted jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also apply to the futures commission merchants, retail foreign…