Here we go again. People reveal information to “Friends” from Facebook, only to find they’ve trusted the wrong person. Jim Anderson reports: In a case speaking to the perils of social networking, a 26-year-old Woodbury man faces 13 felony charges after being accused of hacking into Facebook accounts and duping young women into becoming friends,…
Category: Breaches
HK: Privacy watchdog rules out Legco cameras probe
Elizabeth Law reports: The privacy commissioner has ruled out an investigation into the new closed-circuit television cameras installed outside the Legislative Council building. At least eight surveillance cameras were installed recently, but there are no signs warning the public of their presence – violating a “guidance note” issued in July by the privacy commissioner for…
Lawsuit targeting RockYou data breach gets green light
Dan Goodin reports: A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed against social-media application developer RockYou for exposing the personally identifiable information of 32 million of its users, which the site stored unencrypted when it suffered a major security breach 16 months ago. Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the US District Court in the…
Judge: was WiFi packet sniffing by Google Street View spying?
David Kravets reports: The question of whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open WiFi routers across the United States is boiling down to the definition of a “radio communication.” That appears to be the legal theory embraced by the Silicon Valley federal judge presiding over nearly a dozen combined lawsuits…