A UK judge’s frustration that he could only fine a data leaker has the Information Commissioner calling for tighter laws…. Laws should be tightened to give judges the option to jail people found guilty of serious abuses of personal data, the UK’s Information Commissioner has said. Christopher Graham said penalties under the Data Protection Act…
Category: Breaches
McDonald’s manager: “I am, very, like remorseful” for taking nude workmate’s pic
No, this is not the case out of Arkansas involving McDonald’s and a cell phone, but another case, this out in Australia. ANI reports: Amanda Jane Murison, 21, of Runcorn in Brisbane’s south, was at a fast-food conference at a Hamilton Island resort in August last year, and she was sharing a room with a…
Prince William and Harry’s mobile phones ‘may have been hacked’
Chris Irvine of Telegraph reports: Prince William and Harry’s mobile phones may have been hacked into by journalists, MPs have heard. Detective Chief Superintendent Philip Williams, from the Metropolitan Police, raised the possibility at the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. When asked if he suspected journalists had hacked into the princes’ mobile phones,…
LifeLock loses another round in court
Experian has issued a press release indicating that a federal court in California has denied LifeLock’s request to reconsider a ruling which found that LifeLock’s practice of setting 90-day fraud alerts on Experian and other credit bureaus was unlawful: Experian® today announced that a federal court in California denied a motion by LifeLock Inc. to…