Remember the case of Leon Walker, the Michigan man who was charged with a felony for hacking into his ex-wife’s email? He had also been charged with trying to hack into a police database. In the latest development, The Detroit News reports that a judge refused to dismiss the police database hacking charges even though…
Category: Breaches
Emotional Injury as Privacy Harm
William McGeveran writes: Perhaps lost in all the understandable attention to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the Wal-Mart class action case, the Court also granted cert. in a potentially significant privacy law case, FAA v. Cooper. SCOTUSBlog has collected the documents in the case here. The formal question presented in the case is: Whether a plaintiff who alleges only…
Canada’s privacy commissioner scolds Staples, eHarmony
Jeff Davis reports: Staples Business Depot received a slap on the wrist from the federal privacy commissioner Tuesday for failing to protect customers’ personal information. The business-supplies company was found to have been selling used data storage devices — such as computers, hard drives and USB sticks — without first wiping them clean of data….
Hong Kong banks sold customer data: watchdog
AFP reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog on Monday scolded four banks for releasing customers’ personal data to third parties, accusing three of them of selling the information.The four banks – Citibank, ICBC, Fubon Bank and Wing Hang Bank – had all released customers’ personal data, while Citibank, ICBC and Fubon Bank also used the information…