Christina Zhou reports: The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has renewed its call for fines for failing to notify the privacy commissioner of data breaches after the UK introduced penalties of up to half a million pounds. The ALRC initially made the call in its report: For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice released…
Category: Breaches
Is your cell phone leaking? / Data thieves exploiting new Docomo browser software functions
Cell phone technology experts are warning that NTT Docomo Inc.’s latest cell phone models with i-mode Browser 2.0 software installed could expose users’ personal information without their knowledge. Docomo has asked operators of Internet sites accessible from cell phones to take precautions to safeguard personal data, such as asking users to input passwords. […] The…
UK: Judge says extraditing Gary McKinnon may be unlawful
Afua Hirsch reports: The home secretary may have acted unlawfully by pursuing the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a high court judge said yesterday. Extraditing McKinnon, an Asperger’s sufferer who is facing a lengthy prison sentence in the US for breaching US military and Nasa computers, raises “stark and simple issues”, Mr Justice…
Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit China
Miguel Helft and John Markoff report: Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there. As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit…