Paul Drury and Gordon Tait report: A gran facing eviction to make way for the 2014 Commonwealth Games last night acc-used council chiefs of mounting a smear campaign against her. Margaret Jaconelli, 52, claims details of council tax arrears she has run up were leaked to newsmen along with info on business rates her hubby…
Category: Breaches
State Dept. employee indicted for snooping in celebs’ passport files
What — yet ANOTHER case of a State Department employee snooping in passport records? I’m glad there’s an indictment, but what about better prevention? Kieran Crowley reports: A US State Department clerk has been indicted for using her government computer to gather personal information on more than a hundred celebrities and their families — including…
Studies show smartphone users unknowingly give up personal data
G.W. Schultz reports: Half of more than two-dozen popular Android apps studied by researchers and available for download to smartphones secretly transmit the geographic location of users, i.e. the approximate physical location of a consumer with their device, to remote servers controlled by advertisers, according to new findings released Sept. 29. But makers of the applications…
Cn: Chat Program Sparks Privacy Fears
A popular Chinese online chat service is believed to have scanned users’ personal information. A group of Chinese lawyers has said they will file a privacy lawsuit over one of China’s most popular online chat programs, following complaints that the service had scanned confidential information on users’ computers. The allegations were reported in the official…