Claire Miller reports: A Cardiff council employee resigned after he was found to have accessed information about his tenants’ housing benefit claims while at work. An investigation was launched in December last year against the benefits officer for multiple inappropriate access to records relating to a property of which he is landlord. He has since…
Category: Breaches
NZ: BSA finds TV2’s Police programme breached privacy
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from a man that footage on TV2’s Police of him being arrested and taken to the police station for ‘detox’ after solvent abuse breached privacy and fairness standards. The BSA has ordered Television New Zealand to pay the complainant $1000 costs for breach of privacy and costs…
Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?
Orin Kerr has a compelling op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about proposed amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) that begins: Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet. So you could be jailed for lying about your age or weight on an…
AU: Westfield Bondi caught in ‘find my car’ privacy flap
Less than one week after Ben Grubb reported privacy concerns or the potential for abuse of a new mobile app, he reports that there’s been a breach: Westfield’s new mobile app has been caught leaking customers’ car number plate data on to the public internet, allowing for “anyone with the knowhow” to monitor when cars…