Cameron Langford reports: Texas illegally “sold, trade, bartered and distributed” babies’ blood to private companies and the Pentagon without asking or telling their parents, after taking the blood as part of Texas’ “mandatory newborn screening program,” parents claim in a federal class action. Blood from 8,800 babies was sold or traded for lab equipment from…
Category: Breaches
House Approves Social Security Number Protection Act
On December 8, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Social Security Number Protection Act of 2010 (S. 3789), which is aimed at reducing identity theft by limiting access to Social Security numbers. The bill prohibits printing Social Security numbers, or any derivative of a Social Security number, on government-issued checks, and bars federal, state and…
German Data Protection Authority Imposes €200,000 Fine for Targeted Advertising Without Adequate Consent
From the Hogan Lovells blog, Chronicle of Data Protection: On November 23, the data protection authority (DPA) of the German Federal State of Hamburg imposed a€200,000 fine [link in German] against the Hamburg-based savings & loan Hamburger Sparkasse due to violations of the German Federal Data Protection Act (the BDSG) for, among other reasons, using neuromarketing techniques without customer consent. …
Man charged with hacking women’s Facebook accounts, posting nude photos
Denis J. O’Malley reports: A former computer technician allegedly hacked into three womens’ Facebook and e-mail accounts, pilfered nude pictures of them and posted one of the victim’s pictures on her Facebook page. David Sica, 25, of 613 Hickory St., Old Forge, turned himself in at the Lackawanna County district attorney’s office Wednesday afternoon. He…