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…
Category: Breaches
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,…
Shaquille O’Neal sues former employee for privacy breach
Well, it’s taken over a year for a follow-up, but the case of hacking/invasion of privacy/extortion claims by Shaquille O’Neal against a former employee has now been formalized in a lawsuit. Marimer Matos of Courthouse News has the story: Shaquille O’Neal claims a computer tech he hired, who hid his criminal past, stole his private…
Has Carbonite had a privacy breach? I’m getting spam.
Richi Jennings writes what happened when he started getting spam at a tagged email address he had given only to Carbonite: The company responded with a dry drawer statement: Carbonite has discovered an advertiser misappropriated our e-mail list during the process of one of our e-mail marketing campaigns. When Carbonite launches an e-mail marketing campaign,…