Both the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns swear that their websites don’t collect personally identifiable information from visitors, but a new report reveals that neither candidate can really back that claim up. Responding to the New York Times for an article published just this week, representatives from both presidential contenders say no private information…
Category: Breaches
UK: Council guilty of data breach by posting identities online
A council has been accused of putting residents who report litter and graffiti at risk from the perpetrators after the authority breached data protection laws by posting online the identities of those providing the tip-offs. Data protection watchdogs at the Information Commissioner’s Office have deemed that York Council has broken guidelines after it emerged the…
Verizon staff arrested for stealing customer’s nude pics
Iain Thomson reports: Two Verizon staffers are under indictment for allegedly stealing nude photographs from an attractive female customer’s phone and passing them around. According to the gendarmes, the two men worked at a Verizon store in Bartow, Florida, where one, Joshua Stuart, 24, helped a nubile local waitress transfer her data from her old…
Minneapolis approves $392,500 settlement with former cop over invasion of privacy
Following up a case covered previously on this blog. Karen Boros reports: A former police officer — who accused cops from across the Twin Cities of invasion of privacy when they inappropriately accessed her driver’s license information — will receive $392,500 from Minneapolis. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a one-time St. Paul and Eden Prairie police officer,…