Frank Jordans of Associated Press reports: A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of coercion and breaking Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws. A judge at Zurich’s Regional Court has sentenced Rudolf Elmer to a fine of over 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,000). Elmer claimed at…
Category: Breaches
UK: Bank pay disclosure could ‘breach privacy laws’
Banks that voluntarily disclose the pay of their top earners could face legal repercussions, according to City lawyers. Ahead of next month’s bonus round, the government has attempted to curb excessive remuneration in the financial sector by calling on banks to publish the salaries of their highest paid staff. However, Liz Pierson of law firm…
Interview: Roger Clarke, Australian Privacy Foundation
Richard Chirgwin of The Register interviewed Roger Clarke about the recent Vodafone breach. You can read the interview on their site, but here’s the part that caught my attention: El Reg: What does the Privacy Act have to say about “bad apple” incidents – where the company didn’t intend to make customer data public, but…
CO: Family receives mysterious documents
Lori Obert and Anastasiya Bolton report: It is an odd and unsettling story. Somebody, somewhere, is sending out documents with peoples’ social security numbers on them. Robin Scully’s husband received a yellow packet at the beginning of January. “Oh, strange stuff,” Scully said. “Pictures, people we don’t have any idea who they are.” The packet…