Milanda Rout reports: John Brumby’s law enforcement data watchdog is tired of Victoria Police not fully implementing its recommendations. The CLED will subject them to “intense supervision” until they fix their flawed security around sharing sensitive personal information. The Commissioner for Law Enforcement Data Security, David Watts, has warned police that “any further delay” in…
Category: Breaches
FTC Testifies on Data Security Legislation
The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate Subcommittee that it supports proposed legislation that would require many companies to use reasonable data security policies and procedures and require those companies to notify consumers when there is a security breach. In testimony before the Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product…
Solove’s Post Regarding the Role of Harm in Privacy Litigation
Privacy lawyer Andy Serwin responds to a blog entry by fellow privacy lawyer Daniel Solove on data breaches and “harm:” Dan Solove has written extensively on privacy theory as well as harm in the data breach context and recently posted on harm in the data breach context. Solove’s post discusses the issues plaintiff’s face in privacy litigation…
Vodafone shares subscribers’ email addy with world+dog
Vodafone has been caught taking liberties with customer’s email accounts, and it seems at least some of the customers aren’t happy about the practice. The problem is with the password reminder feature on the “My account” section of the carrier’s website. All you have to do is enter the phone number of the person you’re interested…