Senator Richard Blumenthal held a roundtable discussion yesterday with data breach experts and community leaders at the Information Technology Center at the University of Connecticut Greater Hartford campus to discuss legislation he will introduce in the coming weeks that will take a multi-pronged approach to combating the risks associated with data breaches for both consumers…
Category: Breaches
Lawyer: NJ student didn’t mean to spy on roommate
Geoff Mulvhill of Associated Press reports: A lawyer for a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man says in newly filed legal papers that prosecutors got it all wrong and that the case should be dropped. Nineteen-year-old Dharun Ravi faces 15 charges, including bias intimidation and…
S. Korea plans to scrap online real-name system
It appears that a massive data breach affecting 35 million South Koreans who use popular portal and social networking sites Nate and Cyworld has served as a wake-up call for the government: The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the…
Ca: ‘Secret shoppers’ plan may breach privacy laws: Lawyer
Jessica Murphy reports: OTTAWA – The federal language watchdog may be breaking Canadian privacy laws if he sends out ‘secret shoppers’ to spy on the bilingualism of private businesses, according to a constitutional lawyer. “It’s questionable and possibly outside the law,” said Calgary-based litigator Gerry Chipeur on Friday, referring to the Official Languages Commissioner’s initiative to study…