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…
Category: Breaches
UK phone-hacking scandal: Rebekah Brooks, seven others to be charged
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…
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….