Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the complaints-based system for regulating privacy breaches may not be up to snuff and that her office may need the power to levy fines to get companies to pay attention. Stoddart made the comments Wednesday in a speech to the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of…
Category: Breaches
Swiss banker who gave WikiLeaks tax evader files escapes jail time for breaking bank secrecy laws
Frank Jordans of Associated Press reports: A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of coercion and breaking Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws. A judge at Zurich’s Regional Court has sentenced Rudolf Elmer to a fine of over 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,000). Elmer claimed at…
UK: Bank pay disclosure could ‘breach privacy laws’
Banks that voluntarily disclose the pay of their top earners could face legal repercussions, according to City lawyers. Ahead of next month’s bonus round, the government has attempted to curb excessive remuneration in the financial sector by calling on banks to publish the salaries of their highest paid staff. However, Liz Pierson of law firm…
Interview: Roger Clarke, Australian Privacy Foundation
Richard Chirgwin of The Register interviewed Roger Clarke about the recent Vodafone breach. You can read the interview on their site, but here’s the part that caught my attention: El Reg: What does the Privacy Act have to say about “bad apple” incidents – where the company didn’t intend to make customer data public, but…