I’ve recently posted a few lawsuits out of Minnesota concerning improper access to the state’s driver’s license database. One of them involved a police officer whose colleagues improperly accessed her records on numerous occasions. Now there’s also a case in Florida, where law enforcement personnel improperly accessed a fellow officer’s records – but not just…
Category: Breaches
Privacy Class Actions: Year-in-Review
Erica Gann Kitaev of BakerHostetler has a recap of some privacy lawsuits in 2012: During 2012, privacy class actions continued to trend toward two major categories: 1) actions that arose out of a data breach event and 2) actions brought to prosecute an alleged consumer privacy right. Read her recap here.
Yet a third alleged breach involving the Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services database
It’s deja vu all over again: there’s another lawsuit in Minnesota over improper access to the state’s driver’s license database. This time, however, it’s not a police officer suing over improper access by colleagues. David Hanners reports: A former Minneapolis bureaucrat claims that co-workers and other city officials repeatedly looked up her state driver’s license…
Facebook fixes ‘Peeping Tom’ webcam bug
John Leyden reports that Facebook has fixed a bug, but it took five months to do so: Facebook had a busy time over the holiday period fixing several security flaws, including a webcam-related vulnerability that allowed hackers to record video from a user’s web camera and post it on their timeline. “An attacker could trick…