Associated Press in Paris provides more on a lawsuit first covered here: The snapshot shows Roman Polanski standing at a window, his face narrowly visible between the curtains. The French paper that published the photograph said it was a legitimate depiction of the director’s life under house arrest in his Swiss Alpine chalet, but the…
Category: Breaches
Google blames ‘human error’ for data leak
Jeremy Kirk reports: Google is apologizing after it mistakenly e-mailed potentially sensitive business data last week to other users of its business listings service. The company’s Local Business Center allows businesses to create a listing for Google’s search engine and Maps application, as well as add videos, coupons or photos. Google then provides data on…
New Chinese Tort Liability Law Contains Provisions Affecting Personal Data
Hunton & Williams provide more details on the newly passed Chinese tort law: Certain of its provisions relate, expressly or in a general sense, to personal information. These provisions can cause data users to incur liability to data subjects for the mishandling of personal information. In particular: The law (at Articles 2 and 6) states…
AU: Vinnies ‘misused’ donor data
Erik Jensen reports: The St Vincent de Paul Society has been accused of breaching public trust and aspects of the Privacy Act after entering into an agreement that allowed one of the world’s largest data companies to gather information through a Christmas mail-out from the charity. The society defended its relationship with Acxiom but admitted…