Paul Crawley reports: After complaints from several parents, the Fulton County School System admitted on Wednesday that it made a big mistake posting the names of dozens of students on the internet. Now those names are all over the worldwide web thanks to a controversy over their school. They are current and former students at…
Category: Breaches
UK reopens probe into Google’s Street View data capture
BBC reports: Google is back under investigation after gathering personal data while cameras on its cars took pictures for its UK Street View service. The Information Commissioner’s Office previously dropped a probe into the affair after being told limited data had been “mistakenly collected”. However, it said it had since become aware of reports that…
AU: Olympian’s photos of sex with wife stolen by staff at computer shop
Normally, I would just sigh and think, “Here we go again,” but it was the second paragraph of a news story on news.com.au that caught my eye: Intimate photographs of an Australian Olympian having sex with his wife were stolen by staff at a Sydney computer shop after the prominent star brought his machine in…
Se: Bank cited for noting client’s bank heist past
The Swedish Data Protection Board (Datainspektionen) has criticised Swedbank for registering the fact that a customer had a prior conviction for robbing one of it branches. “Information regarding crimes or suspected crimes can under no circumstances be registered,” the board wrote in its instruction to the bank. The information was registered in the bank’s internal…