Asher Moses reports that Sony’s delay of several days in disclosing its mammoth data breach has increased the push for stronger privacy and breach disclosure laws in Australia: The federal government will introduce laws forcing companies to disclose privacy breaches after Sony revealed that more than 1.5 million Australian user accounts were compromised in the…
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South Korea raids Google over illegal mobile data collection
Ralph Jennings reports: Police in South Korea said they had raided Google’s Korea head office in Seoul on Tuesday on suspicion that the subsidiary of the search engine company had illegally collected location data from application subscribers. “The raid isn’t directly related to Google but to an app development company,” said Seonghun Kim, detective inspector…
NZ: Personal info sent offshore without permission: Shroff
Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff says personal information collected by government agencies and businesses, often ends up overseas without the individual’s knowledge. Shroff was commenting on results of a survey conducted by the Commission entitled International Disclosures and Overseas ICT Survey. Fifty government agencies and private companies responded to the survey including Air New Zealand, Fonterra,…
The Promise of Privacy Controls
Woodrow Hartzog writes: Privacy settings and other technological controls used to protect privacy have been justifiably criticized a bit lately. Danielle Citron recently blogged at Concurring Opinions about an important new study conducted by Columbia’s Michelle Madejski, Maritza Johnson and Steve Bellovin that found that Facebook’s default privacy settings fail to capture real-world expectations. The United Kingdom…