Kim Christian reports: Australian businesses may soon be forced to tell their customers if their personal details have been stolen, under proposed new laws to combat identity theft. One of the world’s biggest technology security companies, Symantec Corp, says it has been approached to assist the federal government with “advice and support” in drafting privacy…
Category: Breaches
State Dept. Worker Sentenced for Passport Snooping
Grant Gross reports: An employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Kevin M. Young, 42, of Temple Hills, Maryland, was also ordered by Judge Alan Kay, of the U.S. District Court…
Police pledge on desal privacy breach
In a “Oops, our draft didn’t mean what it said” moment, Victoria Police are now backing away as rapidly as they can from a memorandum that appeared to let them turn over personal information on protesters to a non-governmental entity: Victoria Police say privacy laws prevent them from releasing private information about opponents of Victoria’s…
Facebook users prone to ID theft
James E-Smith reports: IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, conducted an online study whereby they created two fictitious users: 21 year-old “Daisy Felettin” who was represented by a picture of a toy rubber duck and 56 year-old “Dinette Stonily” with a profile picture of two cats lying on a rug. Each sent out 100…