Colleen Taylor reports: Path, the mobile app for cataloging your daily activities and sharing them with a relatively small circle of contacts, came under serious fire on Tuesday when it was discovered that Path’s iPhone app imports all of its users’ address book data onto Path’s own servers without notifying users. Not surprisingly, many people saw this as a…
Category: Breaches
Death Master File Under Scrutiny at House Hearing
Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth Festa report: A watchdog at the Social Security Administration testified today that there are about 1,000 cases each month in which a living individual is mistakenly included in the agency’s Death Master File. The comments were made by Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr., SSA Inspector General, at a House hearing on…
Neo-Nazi member calls hacking ‘an invasion of privacy’
I’ve covered the politically motivated hacks of neo-Nazi sites over on DataBreaches.net, but here’s a follow-up from CBC News: Some Canadians whose associations with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups were recently revealed, are defending their involvement with the organizations, while others deny having anything to do with the groups anymore. CBC News reported Wednesday that the…
California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images
Dan Whitcomb of Reuters reports a settlement in a precedent-setting case I’ve been covering for the past several years: The family of a teen whose mangled corpse was shown in horrific car-crash photos that went viral online has settled a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for $2.37 million, ending a 5-year legal battle that…