Davene Jeffrey reports: Halifax regional school board head Carole Olsen says it was her husband who leaked a video of a principal scuffling with a 14-year-old student at Graham Creighton Junior High School in Cherry Brook. The superintendent, with board chairman Irvine Carvery at her side, told media Friday morning that Christopher Olsen, her partner…
Category: Breaches
Lawsuits over Google Wi-Fi sniffing pile on
Robert McMillan reports: Nearly three weeks after admitting that it had sniffed sensitive data from open wireless networks around the world, Google is now facing at least seven U.S. class-action lawsuits over its practice. […] John Simpson, an advocate with California’s Consumer Watchdog, says that he’s not surprised to see so many class action lawsuits….
Wikileaks denies Tor hacker eavesdropping gave site its start
John Leyden reports: Updated WikiLeaks has denied that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a key part in the early days of the whistle-blowing site. Wired reports that early WikiLeaks documents were siphoned off from Chinese hackers’ activities via a node on the Tor anonymiser network, as an extensive interview with WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Paul Assange…
Web photos of woman with HIV prompt lawsuit
Eric Frazier reports: An HIV-positive Union County woman let a drug company take pictures of her for an HIV patients’ magazine, but was shocked to later find the pictures and details about her situation had been published on the Internet – without her permission, she says. The woman filed suit in federal court in Charlotte…