Steve Lohr and David Streitfeld of the New York Times put a name to “Engineer Doe” in the FCC investigation of the Google Street View investigation. “Doe” was the engineer who we now know wrote code to intentionally scoop up payload data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks. According to the less-redacted version of the FCC’s report…
Category: Breaches
Calgary police break privacy legislation by snooping through email, copying topless photos
Matt McClure reports: Security experts with Calgary’s Police Service broke the province’s privacy legislation by snooping in a civilian employee’s personal email account and copying topless photos of the woman as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace. Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ordered the police…
Congress Should Grill the FCC Over Redacted Google Wi-Fi Snooping Report
Chris Soghoian has a commentary on Threat Level that begins: Google released a mostly uncensored version of the FCC’s report on the Street View privacy debacle over the weekend, and the new revelations in the document will undoubtedly prompt privacy groups and Congress to demand further investigations and sanctions. And justifiably so. The full FCC…
Ie: Record level of data complaints
Elaine Edwards reports: Members of the public made a record number of complaints to the Data Protection Commissioner’s office last year. Commissioner Billy Hawkes’s annual report for 2011 reveals the 1,161 complaints related to issues such as unsolicited marketing by text message and email and unlawful use of CCTV to monitor employees. Prosecutions were taken…