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…
Category: Breaches
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges that Chitika Deceptively Tracked Consumers’ Online Activities
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission finalized the order settling charges that online advertising company Chitika, Inc. tracked consumers’ online activities even after they chose to opt out of online tracking on the company’s website. The FTC alleged that, unbeknownst to consumers, the “opt out” lasted for only 10 days. The final…
NZ Post slammed over sharing personal data
Clio Francis and Shane Cowlishaw report: A New Zealand Post survey that collected personal data to rent out to marketing companies has been damned as a “systematic, large-scale breach” of privacy principles. The criticisms are made in two reports carried out for Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff after concerned members of the public contacted her about…
The media loved the Lower Merion “webcamgate” case but ignores PC Rental Agent case?
I continue to be surprised at how little coverage I’m seeing in mainstream media about a case involving software that can and allegedly has take(n) remote screenshots of customers in their homes without their knowledge. I’ve posted a few blog entries on the potential class action lawsuit against Aaron’s Inc, Aspen Way Enterprises (a franchisee),…