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…
Category: Breaches
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…
Ca: RBC on the hook for damages after employee breaches client’s privacy
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) must pay monetary damages to a client for the disclosure by one of its employees of the client’s account information, the Federal Court of Canada has ruled. The client, Nicole Landry, was going through divorce proceedings. As part of the proceedings, Landry’s husband’s lawyer sent a subpoena to RBC…
UK: Disturbing case highlights need for prison to be an option, says Information Commissioner
A press release from the Information Commissioner’s Office indicates the Commissioner wants some insider privacy or data breaches to result in jail terms. While most of the examples he provides have been previously covered on my blogs, he also reveals this disturbing breach: The call for action comes as a bank cashier yesterday pleaded guilty…