Josh Halliday reports: Hacking of Facebook accounts to scam people out of money has become a “major issue” for the social networking site, its head of European public policy, Lord Richard Allan, has told the Guardian. As a result the site is implementing new ways of detecting when its users’ accounts have been hacked, and…
Category: Breaches
Trust and Betrayal Online and Offline
Mike Spinney has a thoughtful commentary on Ponemon.org about reactions to recent revelations that a Google engineer had improperly accessed user accounts. He writes: To focus on Google (or, less specifically, the Internet) as the bad actor in this story is to miss the bigger picture: online or offline life involves risk, and the…
Upcoming Congressional Hearings
A flurry of activity in Congress next week on privacy-related issues. In chronological order: Senate Judiciary Committee Full Committee hearing, “The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: Promoting Security and Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age” DATE: September 22, 2010 TIME: 10:00 AM ROOM: Dirksen-226 WEBCAST The Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee of the Senate…
ACT MP/ID thief David Garrett resigns from ACT — but what happens next?
A PogoWasRight.org commentary: ACT MP David Garrett resigned from ACT last night. His resignation followed revelations that he had stolen a dead baby’s identity to get a passport “as a prank” in 1984 and that he had a previously unknown arrest in 2002 in another matter that was discharged without conviction in 2005. In a…