A customer purchased travel related services from a company. The company sent him an email with a link to his booking details on its website. The customer noticed that the website url link ended with his booking number. He observed that by changing the booking number, he could view booking details for other customers. He…
Category: Breaches
The Privacy Landmine That is Duke Graduate Karen Owen’s ‘Senior Thesis’
Kashmir Hill writes: My alma mater has a habit of getting into the news, especially for stories that involve Duke athletes and sex. The latest story is jaw-dropping even for the Blue Devils. Karen Owen, a 2010 graduate, kept detailed notes on her sexual adventures with 13 members of Duke’s lacrosse, baseball and tennis teams…
Privacy invasion aftermath: “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”
I didn’t sleep much last night. I felt sick inside over the suicide of a young man whose privacy had been horribly invaded. There will be those who lump this case in with what is often referred to as “cyberbullying,” but cyberbullying does not necessarily involve invasion of privacy. The suicide of Tyler Clementi is…
Data Privacy in Pakistan
This is a call information of a customer subscribed to one of the leading cellular services of this country. It contains information regarding customer name, the phone number, all the numbers that the customer dialed, when and for how long. I have edited the information of course. [Note- the image is much larger on the…