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…
Category: Breaches
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…
NZ: Officer leaked police data to wife – and the dept. wouldn’t even investigate?!
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…
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…