Ian Kerr, the man behind the Consulting Association, which held and maintained a blacklist of builders, has been fined £5,000 by Knutsford Crown Court. The company was raided by the Information Commissioner’s Office in March when the watchdog made its first ever use of an Enforcement Notice to shut it down. Read more in The…
Category: Breaches
Twitter lawyers up
The BBC reports that Twitter is speaking with lawyers after over 300 documents were hacked and then published on the web. As reported yesterday, TechCrunch has published some of the documents that did not contain personal information. But the hacked documents being published are not the only security problem Twitter is dealing with this week….
ID theft law enacted in CT
Criminals who target senior citizens while committing identity theft will face tougher penalties this year under a law that passed with bipartisan support. The law also empowers the state to seize cash and property obtained through identity theft and use it to reimburse victims. […] The new bill bars businesses from printing their customers’ Social…
More on Twittergate
Many of the headlines today discuss a story mentioned earlier today on this site — how Twitter got hacked and TechCrunch decided to publish some of the documents they were sent by the hacker. Steve Ragan of Tech Herald provides coverage of the ethical controversy raised by Tech Crunch’s decision and agrees with their stance,…