To follow up on my previous blog entry about Tyler Clementi’s suicide, here are two pointers to some thoughtful discussions of the tragedy: Law professor and privacy scholar and author Dan Solove comments in, The Clementi Suicide and Invasion of Privacy on Concurring Opinions. Journalist and author Jeff Jarvis follows up on an interview he…
Category: Breaches
UK: Couple’s anger as police officer caught searching private data
An East Yorkshire couple are calling for changes to be made after a police officer was caught snooping on them. Police Constable Mark Wicks, based in Hull, broke strict confidentiality rules by accessing information about Lee and Stephanie Bainbridge, of Yorklands, Driffield. It followed a boundary dispute between the Bainbridges and PC Wicks’ brother Paul…
Senate passes bill to limit access to SSN
Before they fled Washington early, the Senate managed to pass S.3789, the Social Security Number Protection Act of 2010. The bill, which had been introduced by Senator Feinstein, is designed to reduce identity theft and has two key provisions: (a) It prohibits governmental agencies from using individuals’ Social Security Numbers on any checks cut by the…
Higher Damages Possible in Prison Privacy Breach Lawsuit – Court
Courthouse News reports on the latest legal development in a lawsuit that started with a privacy breach in 2001 involving employees at the Federal Medical Center in Kentucky: Staff members at a prison hospital in Kentucky might be entitled to more than $1,000 each for the breach of privacy that occurred when a federal investigator…