Great thanks to one of this blog’s regular readers for taking pity on me being knocked offline and sending me all of these wonderful links to privacy news that I missed: Lawyers Claim Montana Workers’ Compensation Investigators Violate Privacy Two Billings attorneys are asking the Montana Supreme Court to stop workers’ compensation investigators from practices…
Category: Breaches
Protecting Your Child’s Personal Information at School: A Comment on an FTC Guidance
As schools re-open, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a consumer alert for parents on how to protect your child’s information at school. I would encourage my readers who are parents to read their advice, but keep the following in mind: Although their advice sounds good, 20+ years of real-world experience suggests parents will get…
[Commentary] WikiLeaks: Shabby journalism is still journalism, isn’t it?
Back in my college days, if you had asked me whether I’d forever remember one particular art professor from my junior year, I would have laughed. But decades later, I still remember Mrs. Phillips. With her hair pulled back in a severe bun and her thousands of slides of famous paintings, her classes were the…
Ca: Thompson-Nicola Regional District apologizes for privacy breach in food fight
Cam Fortems reports: The TNRD has issued letters of apology to residents of a rural area near Lytton after it breached their privacy by releasing their letters to a corporation that wants to develop a waste composting facility. Lyle Huntley, corporate services director for the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, confirmed it has sent letters of apology…