Henry Chu reports: Prosecutors announced criminal charges Tuesday against eight people in connection with Britain’s phone-hacking scandal, including a onetime confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch and a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron. The eight suspects are accused of illegally tapping into the cellphones of celebrities, politicians and others in the public…
Category: Breaches
Bechtel sues Dallemand, claiming student privacy rights ‘invaded’
Another FERPA case – this one out of Georgia. Andrea Castillo reports: Bibb County school board member Gary Bechtel filed a lawsuit Monday against school Superintendent Romain Dallemand, contending that Dallemand violated student privacy rights by improperly releasing information about the education records of Bechtel’s son. Bechtel, his wife, Laura, and his son Sam, filed…
The Lesson of Google’s Safari Hack
Michael Chertoff has an OpEd in the WSJ: In the cyber age, privacy and security are two sides of the same coin. Digital privacy concerns can’t be separated from security ones, and vice versa. That’s why the government’s response to “Safarigate”—in which Google hacked a popular Web browser, changing users’ settings without their knowledge—is troubling….
B.C. software woes worse than predicted: privacy group
Rob Shaw reports: A privacy watchdog group that has been sounding alarm bells for years about the B.C. government’s new computer system says revelations of its serious failures are far worse than predicted. Numerous privacy breaches in the new $182-million Integrated Case Management System, revealed Thursday, are “far beyond” the worst-case scenario predicted by the…