Hunton & Williams have an informative law blog, Privacy and Information Security Law Blog, and if you haven’t already bookmarked, you should. Yesterday they wrote: On November 17, 2010, Representative John Adler (D-NJ) introduced the Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010 (H.R. 6420) to “amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to the…
Category: Breaches
Alberta employer too hasty in telling supervisors about employee’s failed drug test
An adjudicator with Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner found an Alberta employer did not comply with the notification requirements of provincial privacy legislation when it informed certain employees and others that an employee who was suspended for a positive drug test wouldn’t be around. An Alberta employee of Lafarge Canada, a supplier…
Nearly One Million LifeLock Victims to Receive Refund Checks from FTC
An administrator working for the Federal Trade Commission began mailing refund checks Wednesday to 957,928 people who were victims of allegedly false claims made by LifeLock, Inc., which told consumers it could provide absolute protection from identity theft if they signed up for its identity protection service. The mailings will continue for two weeks. In…
Lawyer gets jail time in Dead Sea Scrolls harassment case
Jennifer Peltz of AP reports: A New York lawyer was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail for an ultramodern crime that was all about antiquity: using online aliases to harass people in an academic debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Raphael Golb, 50, was sentenced on identity theft and other charges in a rare…