What — yet ANOTHER case of a State Department employee snooping in passport records? I’m glad there’s an indictment, but what about better prevention? Kieran Crowley reports: A US State Department clerk has been indicted for using her government computer to gather personal information on more than a hundred celebrities and their families — including…
Category: Breaches
Studies show smartphone users unknowingly give up personal data
G.W. Schultz reports: Half of more than two-dozen popular Android apps studied by researchers and available for download to smartphones secretly transmit the geographic location of users, i.e. the approximate physical location of a consumer with their device, to remote servers controlled by advertisers, according to new findings released Sept. 29. But makers of the applications…
Cn: Chat Program Sparks Privacy Fears
A popular Chinese online chat service is believed to have scanned users’ personal information. A group of Chinese lawyers has said they will file a privacy lawsuit over one of China’s most popular online chat programs, following complaints that the service had scanned confidential information on users’ computers. The allegations were reported in the official…
UK: High court grants BT customer data delay
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…