The Octopus Card Company has admitted that it had shared personal details of its 2.4 million card holders with two partner companies involved in a reward scheme. It’s now set up a special committee to review its handling of customers’ personal information. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Prudence Chan, said its partners will be told…
Category: Breaches
NYC launches program to help combat mortgage fraud
William Sherman reports: You can help catch a thief. The city has launched a new program to immediately notify property owners when scammers try to steal their holdings with a phony deed or a bogus mortgage or lien. The Finance Department will send the alarm by e-mail, text message or letter to any owner who…
Article of Note: The Boundaries of Privacy Harm
Ryan Calo has an article on SSRN that may provide food for thought for many readers. Calo, M. Ryan, The Boundaries of Privacy Harm (July 16, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1641487 Just as a burn is an injury caused by heat, so is privacy harm a unique injury with specific boundaries and characteristics. This Essay…
UK: ‘Sexual adventurer’ accessed information on Hampshire police computer
A Hampshire policeman acted as a “sexual adventurer” by using the force computer to access women’s details, a court heard. PC Robert Campbell told one woman he would post up pictures of her in her underwear at the police station if her husband, a wanted man, did not give himself up. He pursued four women,…