Jim Malmberg writes: Last month, a new lawsuit was filed in District Court for the District of Columbia against Bank of America Corporation; the nations largest bank holding company. The suit alleges that B of A has been outsourcing certain functions to overseas companies and that as a result has given access to the personal financial records…
Category: Breaches
New Blumenthal bill would require firms to beef up security and privacy practices
Gautham Nagesh reports: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced a new bill Thursday aimed at protecting consumers by punishing businesses, individuals and data brokers that misuse or fail to protect their data. The Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act would require businesses with the personal information of more than 10,000 customers to implement privacy and…
NC: Court upholds dismissal of OMH lawsuit
Lindell Kay reports that a privacy of invasion lawsuit against a hospital was correctly dismissed because autopsy records are public information: The N.C. Appeals Court this week upheld a decision that Onslow Memorial Hospital employees did not violate the privacy rights of a murdered woman’s family by allegedly passing around her autopsy X-rays in 2009….
Leading French newsreader guilty of breaching ex-lover’s privacy
Henry Samuel reports: France’s best-known TV newsreader was on Wednesday found guilty of breaching his former mistress’s privacy for publishing her love letters in a novel, after a court ruled it could not be qualified as fiction. Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, 63, whose evening news broadcasts were regularly watched by eight million people until he was…