Mike Swift reports: Google has told Connecticut’s attorney general it will not comply with his demand to view data from unsecured home and business Wi-Fi networks that the company collected through its Street View cars, a decision that has the state threatening legal action against Google. “I am disappointed by Google’s failure to comply with…
Category: Business
Bank of America Wins Order, Ex-Workers Can’t Take Data
Thanks to eSecurity Planet, I realize that I seem to have missed a news report last week that concerns the privacy of our financial information. Joel Rosenblatt of Bloomberg reported: Bank of America Corp. won a court order temporarily blocking four former employees from using and sharing the bank’s client records at their new employer,…
Commerce Online Privacy Report Gets Mixed Grades
I still haven’t had time to read the report for myself, but the online “buzz” about the new report and recommendations from the Commerce Department is that it falls far short of where we need to be. Here are just two news stories about reactions. Brian Prince of eWeek reports: A new U.S. Dept. of Commerce…
Hk: Collection and use of personal data for direct marketing
Gabriela Kennedy writes: Data protection is currently a hot topic in Hong Kong. This is largely due to the furore caused by the discovery of the large scale sale of personal data by Hong Kong’s Octopus Rewards Limited (a company owned by Octopus Holdings Limited) over a number of years. We reported previously that the…