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…
Category: Breaches
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…
De: Aldi staff ‘filmed women shoppers bending over’
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…
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…