After getting somewhat roundly slammed and thrashed by the media and the blogosphere over the past 24 hours, Etsy.com has backpedalled and apologized for its recent change in privacy practices. I’d say that it was in response to its members’ complaints in their forums, but the reality is that there were tons of complaints and…
Category: Breaches
FTC Accepts Final Settlement with Twitter for Failure to Safeguard Personal Information
From the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a proposed settlement that it announced in June 2010 with social networking site Twitter, which resolved charges that Twitter deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information. The FTC alleged that serious lapses in the company’s data security allowed hackers…
OH: Trouble not over for official fired over e-mail snooping
Randy Ludlow reports: The former top lawyer at the Ohio Department of Public Safety faces professional misconduct charges because he intercepted confidential e-mails involving the state inspector general and others. Joshua Engel has been charged by the state’s legal-ethics watchdog with misconduct that interfered with the administration of justice and that calls into question his…
State Department Contract Employee Pleads Guilty to Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files
A State Department contract employee pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing confidential passport application files, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. Mark Carter, 51, of Upper Marlboro, Md., pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information charging him with unauthorized computer access. According to information contained in plea documents, Carter worked…