Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima report: The U.S. government had a problem: Spying in the digital age required access to the fiber-optic cables traversing the world’s oceans, carrying torrents of data at the speed of light. And one of the biggest operators of those cables was being sold to an Asian firm, potentially complicating American…
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Canada: Enforcement Of Privacy Policy In Steel v. Coast Capital Savings Credit Union
Larry Page of Davis LLP discusses a case in which an employee was fired for cause for snooping/improper accessing of a file: In a recent decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Court upheld the termination for cause of a help desk analyst in the IT department who had been employed for over 20…
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges Against HTC America Inc.
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that HTC America Inc. failed to take reasonable steps to secure the software it developed for its smartphones and tablet computers, introducing security flaws that placed sensitive information about millions of consumers at risk. The settlement with HTC America, announced by the…
UK Information Commissioner’s Office update on Google Privacy Policy
An ICO spokesperson said: “We have today written to Google to confirm our findings relating to the update of the company’s privacy policy. In our letter we confirm that its updated privacy policy raises serious questions about its compliance with the UK Data Protection Act. “In particular, we believe that the updated policy does not…