Crystal Bruce reports: Google announced last May that the vehicles used to collect visual data for its Street View mapping program had gathered private communications from unsecured consumer Wi-Fi networks over a three year period. “After almost nine months since Google first admitted to collecting this data,” the letter states, “we still don’t have answers…
Category: Business
Data Resellers Liable for Downstream Security Failures
Leslie Fair of the FTC comments on recent settlements that were reported earlier this month on DataBreaches.net: Of course, no legitimate business would put out a welcome mat for crooks. But as the FTC’s data security cases make clear, that’s the effect when companies fail to take reasonable steps to secure sensitive information in their…
AU: GPS Vehicle Tracking System in Car Rental Fleet Can Be Used to Fine Drivers
Christian W. writes: A vehicle rental company in Australia has made a controversial decision to install a GPS vehicle tracking system in roughly 30% of the vehicles in its car rental fleet. Using the GPS vehicle tracking system signal, the car rental company will be able to know in real time the exact location of…
Could Your Firm’s E-Mail Policy Run Afoul of the Federal Wiretap Act?
Philip L. Gordon writes: Once seen only in the shadows of the war against organized crime, the Federal Wiretap Act should now be moving steadily and rapidly toward the top of the corporate compliance checklist. Robust civil remedies, recent court decisions and technological developments have transformed the act’s risk profile from a non-event to a…