U.S. Senator Mark Pryor has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the Chairman to investigate the recent data breach of Epsilon, an online marketing firm that handles email lists for companies such as Target, Best Buy, Walgreens, and Citi Group. Pryor said the information that was stolen is likely limited to e-mail…
Category: Breaches
White House To Release Final Trusted Identity Plan
Elizabeth Montalbano reports: The White House Friday will release the final version of a national identity and authentication strategy aimed at standardizing and strengthening identity management and authentication procedures for online transactions. The plan is the result of more than a year of effort and collaboration between the White House, industry, government agencies, and privacy…
Sens. Franken, Blumenthal Ask Justice Department to Clarify, Enforce Data Privacy Law
Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to clarify its interpretation of a critical federal law that protects the private and personal data of Americans. Recently, servers owned by Epsilon Data Management were hacked, exposing the names and e-mail addresses of millions of American consumers….
NotW apologises to hacking victims
The News of the World has publicly apologised to victims of the newspaper’s phone-hacking controversy, saying that the invasions of privacy “should not have happened”. In a statement printed in this week’s newspaper, the paper said it wanted to “unreservedly apologise” to celebrities whose telephone messages were intercepted. Read more of this report from the…