Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, said a probe found four incidents of questionable investigative or surveillance activities at the company. The cases raise “legal issues” related to data protection and privacy, the Frankfurt-based bank said in an e-mailed statement today, citing a report from law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. All four incidents…
Category: Breaches
Porn actress says state intruded on privacy
A porn film actress whose positive HIV test made news in June claims [pdf] state health officials violated her rights by demanding her medical records. Filing her complaint under the name “Patient Zero,” the woman sued California OSHA and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation. Zero claims that after she tested positive for HIV, the…
Deutsche Bank detectives had intern apply at law firm
Private detectives hired by Deutsche Bank AG tried to place an intern at a law firm to gather information about businessman Leo Kirch, according to a letter by a German data-protection regulator. The security firm in 2006 asked a lawyer to apply for an internship at Munich-based Bub Gauweiler & Partner, which represents Kirch in…
RIM fights BlackBerry snoop gaffe
RIM, maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has told the Reg that Etisalat is talking tosh and the BlackBerry remains a secure platform, after the United Arab Emirates operator “patched” the device with surveillance software. The “patch” which Etisalat sent out last week was actually a surveillance application, designed to make copies of received e-mails,…