Seoul – A ruling party lawmaker made public on Monday the names of all unionized teachers, including those of a left-leaning teachers’ union known for its anti-government campaign, refusing to comply with an injunction issued by a local court last week. Rep. Cho Jun-hyuk of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) made an online disclosure…
Category: Breaches
Lower Merion report: Web cams snapped 56,000 images
John P. Martin reports: Lower Merion School District employees activated the web cameras and tracking software on laptops they gave to high school students about 80 times in the past two school years, snapping nearly 56,000 images that included photos of students, pictures inside their homes and copies of the programs or files running on…
Journalists Arrested for Breach of Privacy in Connection to Gay Indian Professor’s Death
Ryan Prado reports: 2 journalists have been arrested in the Indian city of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh for breach of privacy after they filmed gay Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) teacher S.R. Siras having consensual sex with a rickshaw puller in his campus home. Sira was found dead last month under mysterious circumstances. Adil and Siraj, journalists…
Researcher: Mobile number leaks common but inappropriate
Vivian Yeo reports: At the CanSecWest security conference last month, Collin Mulliner, a PhD student at Technical University Berlin, Germany, said confidential data can be leaked due to the addition of HTTP headers at the operator’s HTTP proxy or gateway. Proxies are used to reformat Web pages to suit a smaller screen size. Data that…