Stephen Ryan reports: Lake Macquarie City Council has escaped a penalty after one of its employees forwarded a woman’s personal details to a man who then harassed the woman with threatening text messages, the Administrative Decisions Tribunal was told. The woman wrote a letter of complaint to a council manager in July 2008 about a…
Category: Breaches
Norwegian police raid Autistici, scoop up records of 7,000 users
Eline Buvarp Aardal reports on a raid that was previously covered on this blog back in December, although at the time, it was reported that 2,000 people were affected. Italian police have asked colleagues in Norway to obtain personal information about the two bloggers from a server in Oslo. Server belong to the organization Autistici…
FTC: Investigating Google Street View is a “waste of summer”
From EPIC.org: In documents obtained by EPIC through a Freedom of Information Act request, a senior attorney with the Federal Trade Commission describes the Google WiFi investigation as a “wasted summer” and hopes that a Hill briefing on Google WiFi “won’t be too much of a time suck.” EPIC sought these documents after the FTC dropped its investigation…
California Legislature to take up data breach notification proposal
A new year, a new governor, the same old problem and perhaps the same solution. State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, has introduced a bill that he says will enhance consumer privacy protection by strengthening the notification requirements when databases of personal information are compromised. It’s the same bill that the Legislature passed last year…