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…
Category: Breaches
Weld County District Attorney’s Office Appealing Court-Ordered Shut-Down Of Immigration Bust
Some people don’t take “no” for an answer. In this case, a raid that occurred at a tax preparer’s office in 2007 has been the subject of numerous filings as to the constitutionality of the search and use of evidence obtained in the raid. Early coverage of this case can be found in the PogoWasRight.org…
Es: Conflict between class action and protection
Berta Baz reports: The most appropriate model to reconcile collective action and data protection was that implemented by Ausbanc with the class-action suit against Telefonica Extremadura. A Madrid court has caused a dispute over the settlement of a collective action to protect the personal data of customers. This court ordered BBVA President Francisco González to…
Facebook fixes data theft issue
David Neal reports: Facebook has fixed a security problem that allowed malicious web sites to access personal user information without explicit permission. The flaw was bought to the attention of security firm Sophos by student researchers Rui Wang and Zhou Li. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said that the security lapse could let…