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…
Category: Breaches
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…
MN: Hacked Facebook accounts, stolen photos
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,…