Two former private investigators were each sentenced Thursday to three years of probation for their roles in an infamous Silicon Valley spying scandal in which prosecutors said they used false identities to access the Social Security numbers and other information on Hewlett-Packard board members, employees and journalists. Read more from Associated Press on The Washington…
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Artist Who Put Spyware On Apple Store Computers Thanks Apple For Freaking Out, Gets In No Trouble
Kashmir Hill writes: Well, apparently you can install spyware on the Macs in an Apple store and face no criminal penalties, as long as you were doing it for the sake of art. Last year, Kyle McDonald, a Brooklyn-based new media artist, installed software on computers at Apple stores in New York (the 14th Street…
Google Near $22.5M Settlement on Safari Breach
Brian Womack reports: Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, is nearing an agreement to pay $22.5 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission probe over claims it violated user privacy on Apple Inc.’s Internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said. The settlement would resolve an investigation over how Google used…
Forgetting to log off gives “tacit authorization” for snooping – NJ court
Timothy B. Lee writes: When Wayne Rogers, a New Jersey teacher, sat down in his school’s computer lab to check his e-mail, he bumped the mouse of the computer next to him. The screen on the adjacent computer came on, and Rogers saw that one of his colleagues, Linda Marcus, had left herself logged into…