Boris Segalis recaps three enforcement cases covered on this blog and its companion blogs: This month, federal agencies and FINRA have announced significant privacy enforcement actions that have resulted in millions of dollars in fines. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) imposed a $4.3M fine on a health plan for violations of…
Category: Breaches
Tanning salon owner charged with taping customers
Dori Olmos reports: Police in Malden, Missouri say there could be hundreds of victims, many of them underage, who were spied on by a southeast Missouri tanning salon owner. Joseph Layland faces 10 charges of possessing child pornography and invasion of privacy. Police say Layland set up a hidden video camera at his tanning business….
Bangladesh judge sacked for privacy invasion
From PTI: Dhaka: Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has sacked a judge for installing a hidden camera inside his colleague’s bedroom. Iliyas Rahman, a lower court judge, committed the offence while he was posted in southwestern Begarhat district in August last year. Rahman admitted his offence saying he had installed the camera at his colleague’s bedroom “being…
AU: Crackdown on telco privacy after Vodafone bungle
Ben Grubb reports: Vodafone’s recent breach of privacy laws has triggered a check on all other telcos by the communications regulator, which is concerned poor practices are more widespread. One telco source said that Vodafone’s recent privacy woes had attracted significant scrutiny from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), and the industry was being…