Josh Halliday reports: Google has “taken reasonable steps” to improve its privacy policies since its Street View mapping cars unlawfully captured data last year, theinformation commissioner said on Tuesday. The internet giant vowed to improve how it handles users’ data in November, after the Information Commissioner’s Office ruled it committed a “significant breach” of the data protection act when…
Category: Breaches
Employees At Tulsa Public Schools Accused Of Hacking Co-Workers Email
Ashli Sims reports: Tulsa police seized several computers from the Tulsa Public Schools athletic office to investigate a possible cyber crime. Three district employees, including the district’s athletic director, are accused of hacking into a co-worker’s personal email account. No charges have been filed against the accused and they haven’t been suspended. And the woman…
Watchdog raises data privacy issues
The way government uses and stores personal data is “deeply flawed”, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said. Current privacy law is not doing enough to stop breaches of personal data, a report published by the Commission found. A spokeswoman said that breaches in privacy are likely to “get worse in the future” as demand…
Blumenthal Announces Legislation on Data Privacy
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…