Rayne Monday writes: This past week angry Republican senators demanded to know whether a senior official in the Obama administration had gone through the tax filings of an entity Politico characterized as a “privately held corporation run by some of the country’s biggest conservative political benefactors.” The firm was identified as Koch Industries. You may recognize…
Category: Breaches
Carswell fires two more 911 dispatchers
J.D. Summer reports: Two more Albany E-911 dispatchers have been terminated in lieu of an appeal to City Manager Alfred Lott for allegedly misusing the state’s criminal information database to look up confidential information on civilians, according to documents obtained by The Herald Monday. In response to a request using Georgia’s Open Records Act, the…
Creepy factor: Hyatt guest claims she found male employee wearing her underwear
Here’s another example of where a privacy violation can cause emotional harm and distress. What a court will do with this, I have no idea, but see what you think. Ameet Sachdev reports: Dayanara Fernandez of Los Angeles says that when she walked into her room at the Hyatt in Deerfield this summer, she was…
Celebrity Data Breaches
Kashmir Hill reports: This week’s news of a U.S. State Department clerk snooping in passport records of celebrities is, sadly, a repeat story. Just two years ago, the State Department was embarrassed by the disclosure that workers had inappropriately accessed passport information of then-presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and John McCain. To assess the…