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…
Category: Breaches
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…
FTC Settlements Require Equifax to Forfeit Money Made by Allegedly Improperly Selling Information about Millions of Consumers Who Were Late on Their Mortgages
The FTC has been busy going after companies that violate our privacy. Their latest target: Equifax: One of the largest U.S. consumer reporting agencies, Equifax Information Services LLC, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it improperly sold lists of consumers who were late on their mortgage payments. In two separate actions, both Equifax and…
SC Supreme Court: Cheating husband’s privacy was not violated when daughter-in-law accessed his emails
Jeffrey Collins of Associated Press reports: The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled a man’s privacy was not violated when his wife’s daughter-in-law managed to get into his email and find out the name of his lover. The justices unanimously ruled Wednesday that since the emails were still in the husband’s inbox, the daughter-in-law did…