Andrea Ahles writes: American Airlines has filed a lawsuit against former flight attendant Gailen David and several other unnamed American employees for publishing private passenger information. Sky Talk readers may remember David as the flight attendant who posted satirical videos about the Fort Worth-based carrier under the guise “Aluminum Lady” and on his blog Dear…
Category: Breaches
Kindness Repaid by Exposing Your SSN
Eric Chabrow writes: Make a donation to a charity, and the thanks you get could be exposure of your personally identifiable information. IRS Form 990, submitted annually by tax-exempt organizations, is a public document, unlike Form 1040 individual taxpayers file. Form 990 isn’t supposed to contain personally identifiable information, but some organizations include such data,…
Watching ‘Martha’: 50,000 affected by security camera privacy breach
Andrew Ramadge reports: Thousands of people all over the world could be watching Martha* get ready for bed right now. But Martha isn’t an entertainer. She’s an elderly woman, and she almost certainly doesn’t know that the inside of her home is being broadcast on the web. Martha – or more likely, one of her…
IKEA France admits spying on employees
Sometimes the allegations are true, despite initial denials. Reuters reports: The management of IKEA in France, where workers have sued the company for allegedly spying on employees, admitted on Friday that activities contravening its ethical standards had taken place and pledged to put a stop to them. Police searched the French headquarters of the Swedish…