Eric Roper reports: A former cop who accused officers across the metro of snooping into her driver’s license file is poised to garner about $665,000 in settlements from Twin Cities municipalities. The payments represent a victory for Anne Rasmusson, a one-time St. Paul and Eden Prairie officer who is pursuing the state’s most expansive lawsuit…
Category: Breaches
Sneaky Apps & Your Personal Information
Here’s another interesting infographic from Muhammad Saleem of BackgroundCheck.org:
Does Verizon’s Monitoring Of Customer Behavior Violate Wiretap Laws?
Earlier this week, I posted a link to a new privacy flap involving Verizon. Here’s more on it from Chris Morran: Earlier this month, Verizon Wireless began selling reports that contain data about its customers’ phone usage and browsing activity. Not surprisingly, some people are worried that this might cross the line from being simply bad…
Attack code for Firefox 16 privacy vulnerability now available online
Dan Goodin reports: Attack code that exploits a privacy information leak introduced in the latest version of Firefox is available online, making it easy for malicious websites to gather detailed information about users’ browsing history unless they downgrade to the previous Mozilla release. As previously reported, Mozilla officials took the unusual step of temporarily removing Firefox…