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…
Category: Breaches
Veterans Affairs ‘broken,’ says advocate concerned with privacy breach
David Pugliese reports: Sean Bruyea may not seem like an enemy of the state but when he leafs through the 14,000 pages of documents that Veterans Affairs Canada compiled on him, he sometimes gets that impression. Veterans Affairs bureaucrats monitored the Ottawa man’s media appearances and his advocacy activities before Parliament, in which he called…
Galloway vows to sue Canadian government
Former British MP George Galloway says he will sue the Canadian government, alleging it breached his privacy rights and branded him a terrorist when it told him last year that he would not be welcomed in Canada. […] In announcing that Galloway would not be welcome in Canada 18 months ago, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney…
JP: ‘Secure’ webcams not always safe / Improper Internet setup leaves images open to unauthorized viewers
Bolstered by advertisements with phrases such as “a sense of reassurance and safety,” an increasing number of password-protected Web cameras have been installed at places such as nursery schools and children’s playrooms in condominiums to let parents remotely monitor their children via personal computer or cell phone. Yet due to such factors as misconfiguring the…