Barbara Leonard reports: A widow claims that state police released her husband’s suicide note the media, along with private letters he left for the family. The widow and her children sued New York State Police Officer Steven Nutting and several Officer Does on constitutional claims in Federal Court. On the night in May 2008 when…
Category: Breaches
Privacy International reads criminal intent in Google’s Wi-Fi audit
Privacy International issued a statement yesterday Google today published an audit on its blog of the code used to collect Wi-Fi data as part of the company’s global Street View operation. The report asserts that the system had intent to identify and store all unencrypted Wi-Fi content. This analysis establishes that Google did, beyond reasonable…
Ca: Province ponders revealing privacy breaches after leak to Teamsters union
James Wood reports: The Saskatchewan Party government said Tuesday it will consider the mandatory disclosure of privacy breaches by government agencies after some recent high-profile incidents. The comments by Justice Minister Don Morgan came after the Opposition NDP called on the government to introduce a system to make such violations public. Provincial privacy commissioner Gary…
Cn: College officials suspended in ID-theft probe
Would we ever see people here suspended for a situation like Jane Chen reports: Two college officials in central China’s Hubei Province have been suspended from their jobs during a probe into an identification theft from a female student. The investigation was launched after Lin Lin, a student from Hainan Province, claimed an unknown girl…