Joe Mullin reports: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) apologized long ago for the accidental collection of personal WiFi data by its Street View cars, but the snafu continues to produce headaches for the company. Now a San Jose federal judge has refused to throw out a class-action lawsuit against Google arguing that the data breach violated federal…
Category: Breaches
Sen. Toomey: Privacy Rules Might ‘Break The Internet’
With so much going on this year in terms of privacy and data breaches, there have been many who have somewhat optimistically believed that this would be the year when we get privacy legislation and a federal data security/breach notification law. Every year since I started this blog (2006), I’ve seen and posted such news…
Hackers leak Former British PM Tony Blair data
Elinor Mills reports: Hackers today released what looks like personal information on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and contents of his electronic address book, including contact data for what could be his dentist, mechanic and members of Parliament. A link to the data on the Pastebin Web site was sent out on Twitter from…
Hustler Must Pay Up for Nude Pics of Slain Wife
In a follow-up to a lawsuit previously mentioned on this blog, Iulia Flip of Courthouse News reports Hustler Magazine will pay a $375,000 penalty for publishing nude photographs of Nancy Benoit after she was murdered by her professional wrestler husband, who then committed suicide, a federal judge ruled. Read more on Courthouse News. Although the…