Thomas Brewster reports: Sextortion scammers have become increasingly ruthless, targeting families of teenage victims who took their own lives after sending nude images to highly organized cybercriminal gangs, the FBI has warned. The gangs have demanded that parents or siblings pay to ensure that the sexualized photos of their deceased relatives are not publicly released,…
Category: Breaches
EDPB: Safety of property can be a legitimate interest for GPS tracking, but the measure must be appropriate and necessary
The EDPB has posted a decision by Slovenia’s data protection regulator: Background information Date of final decision: 04 October 2022 Controller: employer in private sector Legal Reference: National Law (Personal Data Protection Act), Article 5.1(c) and 6.1(f) of the GDPR Decision: Order to comply Key words: GPS tracking Summary of the Decision Origin of the…
UK: Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children. An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading…
New Yorkers deserve more clarity on donor leak
Tim Hoefer, president and CEO of the Empire Center, writes: There’s been a lot of discussion about crime in the race for New York’s attorney general — but not the violation of law committed at the attorney general’s office earlier this year. The state never had any defensible reason for collecting these, which is why…