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…
Category: Breaches
Bucknell U. student charged with invasion of privacy for using video cam to record men in men’s dorm restroom
Francis Scarcella reports: A 21-year-old Bucknell University student faces 44 misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy after university police said he had placed video equipment in a men’s restroom in a dormitory club since January 2021 which showed 363 males using the urinals exposing themselves, according to court documents. Matthew Nowell, of White House Station,…
Virat Kohli condemns ‘appalling’ breach of privacy at Perth hotel
David Charlesworth reports: Virat Kohli has condemned an “appalling” breach of privacy which has left him “very paranoid” after a stranger appeared to film themselves in the India batter’s hotel room. Kohli was not present when the incident occurred but shared on Instagram a video first posted elsewhere of what seems someone filming the former India captain’s room and possessions…
Kids today are ‘overly confident’ about their skills online—losing $101.4 million to hackers last year
Tom Huddleston Jr. reports: You might think today’s teens are as tech-savvy as they come. But being digital natives doesn’t make them immune to online scams. People under the age of 20 lost $101.4 million to online scams in 2021, according to a recent study from cybersecurity startup Social Catfish, which cited figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime…