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…
Category: Breaches
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…
Firefox 14 tabs no longer sneak a peek at users’ privates
John Leyden reports: Mozilla has plugged a privacy-related security hole in Firefox 13 and released a fixed version of its web browser. The flaw allowed the software’s speed-dial-alike “new tab” feature to take snapshots of supposedly secure HTTPS sessions. Punters sounded the alarm over the feature that, for example, revealed online bank account details or private messages…