From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has accepted as final settlements with two operations it charged with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer-to-peer file-sharing software to be installed on their corporate computer systems. Settlements with Utah-based debt collector EPN, Inc., and Georgia…
Category: Breaches
Facebook Asked Blogger Who Purchased User Data To Keep Quiet
David Copeland writes: The Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist who made headlines when he reported acquiring more than one million Facebook data entries said Friday he is cooperating with Facebook as it conducts an internal investigation, but won’t comply with the company’s request to remove blog posts or not talk about the investigation. Good…
NYC officer arrested in ghoulish kidnap plot
Associated Press reports: A city police officer was charged Thursday with leading a ghoulish double life by using a law enforcement database and fetish chat rooms to dream up a plot to torture women and then cook and eat their body parts. Read more on Yahoo! Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of media coverage of this case, but…
Class Actions Adding to the Cost of Data Breaches
Sharon R. Klein and Jeffrey L. Vagle of Pepper Hamilton LLP review what’s going in the federal circuits when it comes to getting potential class action lawsuits over data breaches or privacy breaches dismissed. You can read their article on JD Supra. I’ll take a wild guess and hypothesize that they’re defendants’ lawyers and not…