Henry reports: For months, Britain’s scandal over scoop-hungry reporters hacking into the cellphones of celebrities and politicians drew shrugs from the general public, which viewed the affair as a rarified dispute between the rich and famous and those who write about them. Not anymore. Revulsion swept the nation Tuesday amid allegations that a sensationalist tabloid…
Category: Breaches
UK: 130 police officers broke rules to view files on Steven Gerrard’s trial
Nigel Bunyan reports: Statistics disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that in 2008 there were 42 breaches of data protection laws by officers at Merseyside Police. The following year – including the period in which Gerrard was prosecuted over an alleged affray in a nightclub – there were 152 breaches. Merseyside Police said…
Google+’s first privacy loophole found amidst ‘insane demand’
The first privacy loophole has been discovered in Google’s latest foray into social networking service – Google+. A report in the Financial Times has raised a concern about the privacy related to the ‘resharing’ feature in ‘Circles’, which is believed to have been made keeping user privacy in mind. The report says that ‘resharing’ posts makes…
Lawsuit Over Google WiFi Data Breach Will Move Ahead
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…