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….
Category: Breaches
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…
HBGary CEO Also Suggested Tracking, Intimidating WikiLeaks’ Donors
Andy Greenberg writes: WikiLeaks and its inner circle of supporters may not have been the only targets of a group of security firms that offered to take on the secret-spilling site on behalf of Bank of America. In an email conversation, the head of one of those firms also suggested going after the thousands of…