Rahmah Ghazali reports: The Barisan Nasional has brought in text messaging as a weapon in the by-election battle – and this has got a voter all riled up. The voter from the Sungai Buaya constituency told FMT that she had received 20 SMSes even before nominations were filed in Kuala Kubu Baru yesterday. “This is…
Category: Breaches
French TV channel fined for reporting Bruni rumours
A Paris court fined the France 24 news channel on Friday for reporting rumours that first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was having an affair with a French pop singer. Judges ordered the publicly-funded television channel to pay 3,000 euros to the singer in question, Benjamin Biolay, after ruling that the coverage violated his privacy. Biolay had…
FL: Deputy Arrested Over Data Access
Shoshana Walter reports: Detectives say key members of a massive drug trafficking operation used a Polk County sheriff’s deputy to look up vehicle tag information for a car they suspected belonged to an undercover detective. The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, who most recently was assigned to patrol the Winter Haven area, has joined…
UK Gov, and privacy invasion without a safety net
John Lettice has a commentary on the recent breach where Gwent Police sent a reporter from The Register a file with criminal records checks on 10,000 people: In the case of the autocomplete disaster that’s just happened to Gwent Police, the original error wasn’t spotted until The Register told reported it, and was even compounded…