A Slough letting agent and one of its directors who unlawfully obtained details about their tenants from a rogue employee at Slough Borough Council have been found guilty of committing offences under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). At Reading Magistrates yesteday, SAI Property Investments Limited, trading as IPS Property Services and…
Category: Breaches
Privacy commissioner says UVic breached privacy act by not protecting employee information
Kyle Slavin reports: Given that such sensitive information – the names, social insurance numbers and banking details – for 11,841 University of Victoria employees was stored on a device so susceptible to loss or theft, B.C.’s privacy commissioner says there is “no rationale” that the information wasn’t digitally secure. Read more on Saanich News. You…
FTC Has ‘Slam Dunk’ Case Against Google, Privacy Researcher Says
Carl Franzen reports: The Stanford privacy researcher who first uncovered Google evading the default privacy settings for all users of Apple’s Safari web browser believes that the Federal Trade Commission has a “slam dunk” case that Google violated its privacy agreement with the government. “The facts in this case are unusually clear cut,” Jonathan Mayer, a…
Verdict in Ravi webcam spying trial becomes ‘a cautionary tale’
The New Jersey Star-Ledger, which has been all over the Dharun Ravi case, has a follow-up today on how this case and conviction will be a “game changer:” “It’s a cautionary tale,” said Jenny Carroll, a professor of criminal law at Seton Hall Law School. “Behavior that used to be considered the norm, or acceptable,…