Jack Blanchard has more details on the results of a freedom of information request on police in Yorkshire, UK, mentioned in a previous post on this blog. Revelations concerning medical data are posted to phiprivacy.net, but here are some of the non-medical disclosures for the regions four police forces: Humberside Police said 31 members of…
Category: Breaches
UK: North Yorkshire Police in 39 data protection law breaches
Julie Hayes reports: North Yorkshire police officers and staff breached data protection laws 39 times in the past three years, the force has revealed. In response to a Freedom of Information request, North Yorkshire Police said the incidents included officers and staff conducting checks of private telephone numbers, obtaining personal data without consent, accessing personal…
2011 starts with a reminder that privacy breaches cause harm
Preparing the first three breach posts of 2011 for my blogs, I realized that they all involved insiders, and they all caused harm: – A breach report by Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) that a call center employee with authorized access to a database of customer information misused some customers’ payment card information for fraudulent purposes;…
The Registrar Privacy/Trust Issue…Who Has Access to That Info & What They Can Do With It??
Rick Schwartz describes an insider abuse of private domain registry information by an employee of Moniker.com. The story is somewhat convoluted, but here’s part of what he wrote: I wish the folks at Moniker/Oversee were writing this and not me. I was under the impression they would and do it before today. I urged them…