Sam Hemingway reports: John A. Kacur is frustrated. Last summer, the 84-year-old resident of Lyon Mountain, N.Y., discovered that someone in Burlington had obtained his Social Security number and other personal information and was applying for credit cards under his name. Burlington police investigated the case, and Detective Michael Warren acknowledged last week that he…
Category: Breaches
Don’t like websites tracking you? The courts don’t seem to care
Matthew Ingram comments on this week’s court decision tossing claims against McDonald’s, Interclick, Mazda, and Microsoft for use of “flash cookies.” In this case, the plaintiff tried to argue that the use of “flash cookies” and other methods to track her for advertising purposes, even after she had deleted her cookies, was a breach of the Computer…
Mobile Phone Monitoring Service Found
Lion Gu writes: We’ve been reporting about several NICKISPY variants — Android malware that can monitor a phone’s activities, like SMS, phone calls, and location — here on the Malware Blog, and we’ve been curious of how use such kind of private information, and how they earn money from it. Now, we have a clear example. We’ve found…
Hawkins claims Patterson violated students’ privacy
Chris Norwood reports: Talladega College President Billy Hawkins is alleging that City Council President Horace Patterson’s re-election campaign violated the privacy of students by obtaining their home addresses and sending campaign literature to their homes over the summer. Although voter rolls are public information, college students who vote in Talladega must register with their Talladega…