The North Carolina Department of Revenue has agreed to stop gathering personal data on on-line buyers. The agreement came in the settlement of a lawsuit filed by Amazon to stop the NCDOR from collecting information. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU-NCLF, and ACLU of Washington got involved in the lawsuit on behalf of several Amazon…
Category: Breaches
Waller claims privacy breach caused PTSD
Brionna Friedrich reports: Ray Waller has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the release of documents by Calaveras County, according to a psychologist hired by his attorney. After Waller was dismissed from his post as chief building official in 2007, the county released 1,200 documents from his personnel file in response to…
Spain heads list of personal data abuse on the internet
I found this item in The Reader interesting in light of Spain’s lawsuit against Google over privacy: Spain is statistically the country with the most incidences of abuse of personal information on the internet, along with Bulgaria, confirms research by Eurostat. Data such as users’ names, postal and email addresses, and videos uploaded have been…
NZ: Officer leaked police data to wife – and the dept. wouldn’t even investigate?!
I generally report breaches over on the companion blog, DataBreaches.net, but this news story about a privacy breach involving an “insider” took so long to come to light and to be handled that I want to mention it here. Jared Savage reports from New Zealand: A North Shore officer leaked secret information from the police…