From the BBC: Google has admitted that it had not deleted users’ personal data gathered during surveys for its Street View service. The data should have been wiped almost 18 months ago as part of a deal signed by the firm in November 2010. Google has been told to give the data to the UK’s…
Category: Breaches
Prosecutor: Cop misused power to find woman on Facebook
Rosa Golijan reports: A police officer in Camden County, New Jersey has been charged with two felonies for “misusing his police powers for personal reasons.” The man is believed to have accessed a police database to look up information about a woman he’d driven past while on duty. He then supposedly used those details to…
Hackers steal AAPT customer data to protest web spying proposal
Ben Grubb reports: Hackers have stolen customer data from Australian ISP AAPT to highlight the dangers of a proposal to force telcos to store every Australian’s web history for up to two years. AAPT CEO David Yuile confirmed the security incident which occurred at 9.30pm last night in a statement to Fairfax Media this afternoon, saying he was “extremely concerned”….
Ex-Wife Owes $20K for Spyware Divorce Scheme
Annie Youderian reports: The ex-wife of a wealthy businessman must pay him $20,000 for installing spyware on his computers and using it to illegally intercept his emails to try to gain an upper hand in their divorce settlement, a federal judge in Tennessee ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Carter ordered Crystal Goan to pay ex-husband…