The manufacturer of Rascal Scooters, used by disabled and senior consumers with limited mobility, will pay $100,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally called millions of consumers who had chosen to avoid unwanted telemarketing calls by listing their phone numbers on the national Do Not Call Registry. The FTC alleges the firm…
Category: Breaches
Belgium probes Google Street View data sweep
Belgian prosecutors are investigating Google Inc. for collecting data from private wireless networks while it built its Street View application. The probe was launched after the country’s Privacy Commission lodged a complaint with Belgian authorities. Google acknowledged last year that vehicles taking photographs for the mapping service in several European countries also collected data from…
Colorado bill to redefine ID theft shelved
Associated Press reports that Colorado senators have shelved a proposal that would allow Colorado prosecutors to charge people with ID theft even if the defendant claimed not to know that the information they had used belonged to another person. Republican Sen. Ellen Roberts, a sponsor of House Bill 1049, asked a Senate panel to kill…
NZ: Sex victims’ suppression breach report released
An inquiry into the Justice Ministry’s role in publishing two sexual abuse victims’ names has uncovered a further nine cases in which the ministry’s website published suppressed details. Justice Minister Simon Power ordered a review in February after two brothers were named on the ministry’s website when their abuser’s sentencing notes were posted online. The…