The Connexion reports that a man who sued Google in France after Street View captured him peeing in his yard has lost his lawsuit: Despite losing his case in court, the man snapped peeing in his back yard by Google Street View has won a victory as the internet giant has withdrawn his picture from…
Category: Breaches
Hacktivists <3 Data Brokers
Privacy advocates have often complained about data brokers and how information is too readily available without our consent or even the right to opt-out. Now it’s becoming increasingly clear that our headache may be a hacktivist’s wet dream. One of the popular tactics of hacktivists is to “d0x” public or private figures whose conduct they…
Google under investigation by U.S. and non-U.S. regulators for bypassing privacy settings
Julia Angwin reports: Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations. Google stopped the practice last month after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal. Read more on Wall Street…
AU: Foodbowl project accused of serious privacy breach
Alison Savage reports: A report by Victoria’s privacy commissioner has found the foodbowl modernisation project “seriously breached” privacy regulations by failing to inform landholders that it had collected their personal information. The report found some of the information was “not related to Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project’s (VIRP) functions”. The report says some of that…