Josh Halliday reports: BT has today been granted a stay of execution in its bid to challenge attempts of rights holders to obtain personal details about customers without convincing evidence of illicit file sharing. Chief master Winegarten granted BT an adjournment to a court order brought by solicitors’ firm Gallant Macmillan, acting on behalf of…
Category: Breaches
Hacker claims third-party iPhone apps can freely transmit UDID, pose serious threat to privacy
More on apps that may be compromising your privacy, this article by Sean Hollister: When Apple addressed a congressional inquiry on privacy in July, the company claimed that it couldn’t actually track a particular iPhone in real time, as its transactions were anonymous and thoroughly randomized. Bucknell University network admin Eric Smith, however, theorizes that third-party application…
German Government Moves on Draft Law Regarding Employee Data Protection
On August 25, 2010, the German government approved a draft law concerning special rules for employee data protection, originally proposed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. A background paper on the draft law was published on August 25, 2010. The draft law would amend the German Federal Data Protection Act (theBundesdatenschutzgesetz or “BDSG”) by adding provisions that…
If we know a privacy invasion when we see one, why aren’t we responding more forcefully?
In “What Privacy Invasion Looks Like,” Jim Harper writes: The details of Tyler Clementi’s case are slowly revealing themselves. He was the Rutgers University freshman whose sex life was exposed on the Internet when fellow students Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei placed a webcam in his dorm room, transmitting the images that it captured in real…