Tim Dornin reports: A senior South Australian police officer has been sacked for helping set up a lurid internet dating profile that encouraged men to pursue his ex-girlfriend for sex. Detective Sergeant Darren James Clohesy lost his job on Monday after failing to attend a police disciplinary hearing in response to his court conviction. Police…
Category: Breaches
UK: Council’s breach of Data Protection
Laura Wild of Rochdale Online seems convinced that Rochdale Borough Council breached Data Protection rules when they gave out the mobile phone numbers of 1000 people for a research program: The research, being carried out by London Company, OCR International, on behalf of the council, has been slammed by the public, not only for wasting…
UT: Feds asked to investigate privacy breach in immigrant list
Lois M. Collins reports: Utah individuals and advocacy organizations want regional Food Stamp and Medicaid program bosses to respond publicly to last month’s release of a list of immigrants that contained private information. The advocates want the federal program to offer the state training on federal privacy laws. The “list,” which was sent to media,…
Probe urged on Hong Kong banks’ personal data sale
More on the sale of bank customers’ data in Hong Kong, reported previously on this site: Hong Kong’s government was on Friday urged to launch a probe after six banks were found to have sold the personal data of 600,000 customers to insurance companies. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said each of the banks…