TJ McIntyre writes: One recent story which didn’t attract as much attention as it should have was the revelation that the Revenue have set up a special VIP unit to minimise leaks of confidential information about public figures. This emerged with the publication of an audit by the Data Protection Commissioner which found significant weaknesses…
Category: Breaches
OH: Ninety-Month Sentence for Man Who E-Mailed Threats to a Columbus Company, Florida Legislator
Kyle Jeffrey Tschiegg, 39, of Sarasota, Florida was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 90 months’ imprisonment for e-mailing threats, including threats to cause a candidate to drop out of a race for statewide office in Florida; hacking into e-mail accounts of individuals and companies; and using stolen identity information to commit…
Ca: Suit alleges secret sex tapes
Jane Seyd reports: A West Vancouver man is suing his former lover — a North Vancouver teacher — for making a secret sex tape of them, and then showing it to her ex-husband, who then brutally beat the boyfriend in his own home. In a civil lawsuit, filed in B.C. Supreme Court Dec. 29, the…
FTC reminds us that storing data in the cloud has drawbacks
Nate Anderson writes: The Federal Trade Commission worries that consumers don’t really understand the privacy implications to storing some of their most crucial data in the cloud, and it wants the FCC to think about such issues when finalizing its national broadband plan. Take Google’s new Nexus One phone as a case study of the…