Two authorized dealers of the satellite television provider Dish Network, formerly known as EchoStar, have agreed to settle charges that they violated the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule by calling consumers whose numbers are on the Do Not Call Registry. At the FTC’s request, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed complaints against the dealers in…
Category: Breaches
Acorn sues filmmakers, cites privacy law
Ben Nuckols of Associated Press reports: Acorn and two former employees of its Baltimore office filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed the employees giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute. […] The lawsuit names James O’Keefe III…
Former Assistant District Attorney pleads guilty to unauthorized access to information by use of a computer
A former Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney pled guilty in federal court today to unauthorized access to information by use of computer. According to the factual basis (pdf) filed, after a near accident on I-10 near Gulfport, Mississippi, Perry Booth IV copied the license plate number of the other car. When he was unable to…
Email-stealing worm slithers across LiveJournal
Dan Goodin reports: LiveJournal’s security team has disabled some media features on the blogging site after a quick-spreading worm stole user email addresses and caused entries designated as private to be available to everyone. The self-propagating exploit spread to users who were logged in and did nothing more than view a LiveJournal posting that was…