Rob Pegoraro writes: The social network is in the doghouse for the misuse of some users’ data by applications it installed on their pages. The Web-services giant earned itself multiple government investigations – including an inquirylaunched by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday – for collecting data from people’s wireless networks as part of its Street View…
Category: Breaches
TX: KISD erred in providing private phone numbers
Tracy Dang reports: Katy Independent School District said it made an “unintended mistake” in releasing some phone numbers that were intended to be private when it released a list requested in late April as a response to a Public Information Request. The list became an issue when Team Katy PAC had used it to make…
UK: Action taken after MPs personal details compromised
From the ICO’s press release: The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010…
FCC investigates Google for Street View privacy breach, UK ICO criticized for sending non-techies to investigate
Cecilia Kang reports: The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it is investigating a data breach by Google, whose Street View mapping cars scooped up e-mail addresses and passwords from unencrypted residential Wi-Fi networks. “Last month, Google disclosed that its Street View cars collected passwords, e-mails and other personal information wirelessly from unsuspecting people across the…