Allyson Bird reports on yet another lawsuit stemming from a Wall Street Journal article: Google’s Android smartphones might know more about the people who use them than their friends and family. Not only do the cell phones and their applications track customers’ physical locations, but they store and transmit everything from sexual orientation to income,…
Category: Breaches
American Express’s call centers put customer data at risk of warrantless search and seizure – complaint
Seen at Courthouse News: A federal class action claims that American Express routes customers’ calls to foreign call centers without their permission or knowledge, subjecting them to intrusive, warrantless snooping by the U.S. government. The case is Pickman v. American Express Travel Services and was filed in Superior Court of California in Alameda on June…
A brief Sony password analysis
I usually post security breach analyses and commentaries over on DataBreaches.net, but an analysis by Troy Hunt of the hacked passwords used by millions of people on Sony and Gawker sites is worth a complete read if you’re concerned about your privacy. Read his analysis of the patterns of passwords and see if you fall…
Study calls on websites to stop the info free-for-all
More coverage of a study mentioned previously on this blog. Stewart Mitchell reports: Three-quarters of websites directly leak private information to third-party trackers, according to a study. The study by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US looked at 120 popular websites and found that 75% leaked information – including email addresses, physical addresses, and the…