Alex Howard discusses the recent uproar on Twitter after journalist Guy Adams’ account was suspended for tweeting the email of an NBC executive to whom viewers could complain about NBC’s Olympic coverage. The account has been reinstated, and Twitter broke its usual silence on individual cases to discuss what had happened and why. But that’s…
Category: Breaches
Google ‘in breach’ of UK data privacy agreement
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…
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”….