Julia Angwin, Shayndi Raice, and Spencer E. Ante report: Facebook Inc. is finalizing a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, according to people familiar with the situation. The proposed settlement – which is awaiting final approval from the agency commissioners –…
Category: Breaches
Apple expels serial hacker for publishing iPhone exploit
Dan Goodin reports: Charlie Miller, the serial hacker who has exposed more than a dozen critical vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac and mobile platforms, was kicked out of the company’s iOS developer program after publishing an application that demonstrated a serious new bug in iPhones and iPads. Miller’s InstaStock app, which was accepted into the iTunes…
Social Network Impersonator Fined by Spanish Data Protection Authority In New Exercise of Regulatory Authority
Pablo Rivas and Marta Jaureguizar write: On October 20th, the Spanish Data Protection Authority, the Agencia Espanola de Protecccion de Datos (AEPD), announced an unprecedented decision against an individual who impersonated someone on a social networking site and thus engaged in identity theft. The AEPD fined the individual who had created a profile in a sexually-oriented…
Sweden: Paedophile site probed for privacy violations
David Landes reports: A new website set up by a Swede with ties to neo-Nazi groups and featuring the names and contact information of dozens of convicted child sex offenders has been reported for data privacy violations. The site, stoppa-pedofilerna.se (‘Stop the paedophiles’), allows users to perform geographic searches and includes the names, contact information,…