Andy Serwin provides background and analysis of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit decision that plaintiffs had Article III standing in a lawsuit stemming from a stolen Starbucks laptop: Standing is a key issue in privacy litigation, and it is an issue related to damages, though courts at times reach conclusions regarding standing that are inconsistent with their…
Category: Breaches
Illinois Woman Pleads Guilty to Illegally Accessing Confidential Student Loan Files
Another snooping case: An Illinois woman pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing numerous confidential student loan files, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced. Charlotte M. Robinson, 46, of Dolton, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox in the Northern District of Illinois to a one-count criminal information…
Swiss bank investigated after freezing WikiLeaks account
Agence France-Presse reports: Swiss authorities are investigating if the banking arm of Swiss Post violated secrecy rules by divulging that it had closed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s account, media reported on Sunday. “We are investigating if, in relation to the Postfinance press statement, there has been punishable action,” Hermann Wenger, examining magistrate of the Bern-Mittelland…
Check the metadata…
I really don’t know what to quite make of this. If, as it seems, someone forgot to remove metadata from a .pdf file they created, then, this is a self-injurious privacy breach with potentially huge consequences: A press release from “Anonymous” (AnonOps) about the WikiLeaks-supportive DDoS activities reveals the author of the document as Alex…