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…
Category: Breaches
Cn: Fuzhou University denies privacy breach
There’s a lot more I’d like to know about the details of this incident, but it sounds like although Fuzhou University denies a privacy breach, their actions really do sound privacy-invasive. China Daily/Asia News Network reports: Students at Fuzhou University have recently received a questionnaire in which they were asked to respond using their real…
Malaysia PM: Emails, SMSes did not violate privacy rules
Husna Yusop reports: The personal emails and SMSes on 1Malaysia and Chinese New Year (CNY) greetings that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak sent to Malaysians recently did not breach any privacy rules. In reply to Fong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) and Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Serdang), he said when seeking for information on the…
UK: Lack of legal safeguards could lead to census data breaches, warns law professor
Kathleen Hall reports: Information from this month’s UK census is at risk of confidentiality breaches from data being shared with policing or intelligence services, a leading law professor has warned. Census data may be shared with other organisations if it is deemed to be in the interests of national security, says Douwe Korff, professor of…