Steve Wright reports: A former school worker, who claimed she was spied on by Bradford Council when it was wrongly suspected she was moonlighting while on sick leave, has settled a claim for damages outside Court. Shamim Khan, 47, of Heaton, Bradford, had brought the claim against the Council for psychiatric injury caused by unlawful surveillance…
Category: Breaches
PC rental store accused of using webcams, keyloggers on customers
Jacqui Cheng reports: Built-in webcams are becoming more and more common in computers these days, and in turn, they are becoming more and more of a liability. A Wyoming couple is now accusing national rent-to-own chain Aaron’s Inc. of spying on them at home using their rented computer’s webcam without their knowledge. Aaron’s also allegedly…
AU privacy laws to be beefed up following Sony attack
Asher Moses reports that Sony’s delay of several days in disclosing its mammoth data breach has increased the push for stronger privacy and breach disclosure laws in Australia: The federal government will introduce laws forcing companies to disclose privacy breaches after Sony revealed that more than 1.5 million Australian user accounts were compromised in the…
South Korea raids Google over illegal mobile data collection
Ralph Jennings reports: Police in South Korea said they had raided Google’s Korea head office in Seoul on Tuesday on suspicion that the subsidiary of the search engine company had illegally collected location data from application subscribers. “The raid isn’t directly related to Google but to an app development company,” said Seonghun Kim, detective inspector…