Scott Monroe reports from Maine: A tenured economics professor at Colby College was forced to resign late last month after allegations surfaced that he set up a hidden surveillance camera to take photos of female students in a bathroom while chaperoning an international student trip, according to court documents. Philip H. Brown, an associate professor…
Category: Breaches
North Carolina Dept. Of Revenue, Amazon Reach Settlement In Privacy Case
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…
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…