Anthony Dowsley and Ruth Lamperd report the latest in a scandal that seems to have started when a teenage girl obtained nude and semi-nude pictures of members of the St Kilda football team. A member of the team has stated that he took the pictures and that they were obtained from his laptop without his…
Category: Breaches
Mt: Vodafone assisting police over employee’s disclosure of information
Vodafone in a statement this afternoon confirmed that a former employee had violated its strict data privacy compliance requirements and disclosed information about the itemised bill of murder victim Christina Sammut to another person. “At no point in time did the former employee divulge information relating to the subscriber’s location,” it said. Christina Sammut was…
Google and ICO in cahoots over Wi-Fi data probe
Nicole Kobie reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office and Google teamed up on their response to an MP’s complaint about the search giant’s Wi-Fi scandal, according to documents obtained by PC Pro under the Freedom of Information Act. […] After Google confessed the scraped data held more personal information than it first admitted, the ICO’s group…
Hell hath no fury like a vengeful teen with a Facebook account?
The scandal involving nude pictures of St. Kilda footballers continues to grab front page news in Australia. Members of the team have firmly denied that the photos were taken by the girl who has been uploading them. Rather, they assert, the pictures were taken in a hotel room by a team member while others were…