This is probably not the kind of press coverage a supermarket wants to get: Employees at Aldi Süd secretly filmed female customers – especially those wearing short skirts and revealing tops – and swapped the videos among themselves, according to allegations published in Der Spiegel. It said the videos zoomed in on women with short…
Category: Breaches
Google releases FCC report on Street View probe
If there’s damning evidence against you, best to get the story out yourself – and best to get it out on the weekend when fewer people follow news. Jessica Guynn has a must-read piece in today’s L.A. Times about the FCC’s investigation of Google’s wi-fi breach. Google has reportedly released the entire report, only redacting…
UK: Islington Council gives thugs details of residents who complained about them
From the nothing-good-can-come-of-this dept.: Aimee Brannen reports: The personal details of more than 50 people have been passed onto thugs who they reported for anti-social behaviour and drug taking on their estate. Islington Council was forced to notify the Information Commissioner yesterday (Thursday) following the massive breach of data protection which has resulted in the…
The meters may be smart, but watch out for the monitoring!
Jericho from Attrition.org sent me a link to an interesting post on Risks Digest 26.80 from a homeowner who installed solar panels on his roof. The firm that installed the panels provide s a user-specific web page that customers can use to monitor their system’s performance. The page goes one step further: it also displays electricity production. So…