Normally, I would just sigh and think, “Here we go again,” but it was the second paragraph of a news story on news.com.au that caught my eye: Intimate photographs of an Australian Olympian having sex with his wife were stolen by staff at a Sydney computer shop after the prominent star brought his machine in…
Category: Breaches
Se: Bank cited for noting client’s bank heist past
The Swedish Data Protection Board (Datainspektionen) has criticised Swedbank for registering the fact that a customer had a prior conviction for robbing one of it branches. “Information regarding crimes or suspected crimes can under no circumstances be registered,” the board wrote in its instruction to the bank. The information was registered in the bank’s internal…
Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Spousal Privacy Law Appeal
The Leon Walker case, involving hacking charges against a man for accessing his ex-wife’s emails on her computer, will proceed. Timothy Flynn writes: The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected the interlocutory appeal from a man charged under Michigan’s “unauthorized computer access” statute for allegedly hacking into his former wife’s computer. Leon Walker suspected his wife…
UK: Google was allowed to destroy data haul after ICO spent less than three hours examining information collected by Street Cars
Daniel Martin reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog spent less than three hours examining the private information stolen by Google’s fleet of Street Cars, it emerged yesterday. Phil Jones, formerly a senior member of the Information Commissioner’s Office, said it had not wanted to spend money on hiring a computer expert to fully analyse the material. Instead…