The Associated Press reports that a federal judge in Knoxville denied a request by lawyers for David C. Kernell to screen potential jurors by questionnaire about their political views and their attitudes about Sarah Palin. Kernell is on trial after being indicted (pdf) for accessing Palin’s e-mail account. He allegedly figured out the correct answers…
Category: Breaches
Irish civil servants warned on access to records
Alison Healy reports: Some 70 staff in the Department of Social and Family Affairs have been disciplined for inappropriately accessing personal records of others in the past five years, according to figures received by The Irish Times. Of those, 69 related to the personal records of EuroMillions lottery winner Dolores McNamara. The Department of Social…
St. Paul man sentenced in Duluth for Internet crime
Jana Hollingsworth of Duluth News Tribune reports: A University of Minnesota Duluth student convicted of threatening to damage his cousin’s social networking and e-mail accounts to obtain nude photos of her over the Internet was sentenced Friday to electronic monitoring and probation. Judge Heather Sweetland sentenced Anthony Phillip Dzik, 24, of St. Paul to 45…
Personal data a YouTube no-no
Patrick Maloney of The London Free Press reports: A YouTube video watched by thousands that published the phone number of a local public servant breaches the popular website’s rules, says a spokesperson for parent company Google. This week, a Lucan bylaw officer inspected a property owned by David Rock, who then posted on his wildly…