A former member of the British National Party has been fined £200 after admitting publishing the details of some 10,000 party members online. Matthew Single, 37, formerly of Church Lane, Brinsley, Notts, was fined by Nottingham magistrates after admitting disclosing data without consent. The names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of some party supporters…
Category: Breaches
Judge won’t lower $5M bail for SF IT administrator
Robert McMillan reports: A Bay Area man who has spent nearly 14 months in jail after refusing to hand over administrative passwords to San Francisco’s city network is likely to remain incarcerated after a county judge denied his motion for reduced bail on Monday. Terry Childs has been held on a US$5 million bond since…
New law threatens students’ privacy rights – MCLU
Tom Porter of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network has a piece on a new law that comes into effect in Maine next week that will enable the state Department of Education to track the progress of students using their social security numbers. While the law makes it optional for students and parents to provide schools…
Lidl fined for data protection violations
The Privacy and Information Security Law Blog reports that earlier this month, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl € 36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data. To compound the employee privacy breach with a security breach, it seems that the case was…