A Belfair couple who ran a private investigation firm have been sentenced to six months in prison and two years supervised release for using illegal methods to dig up dirt on people who were involved in court cases or litigation. Emilio and Brandy Torrella ran BNT Investigations, where workers posed as the people they were…
Category: Business
How to stop businesses storing SSNs indefinitely?
Over on Slashdot, The Angry Mick describes his experiences trying to get businesses to delete his SSN from their databases and to replace it with an alternative identifier. Then there was DirectTV. This company not only flatly refused to consider the suggestion, but also informed me that even if I were to discontinue service with…
118 800 mobile phone directory still suspended
Controversial 118 800 mobile phone directory service is still unavailable a full month after announcing the temporary suspension of its service. The mobile phone directory service launched in mid-June but decided to suspend its website and phone-based service on 10 July. Speculation that the service was overwhelmed by the volume of traffic to its site…
Palm criticized over Pre privacy
Palm has responded to claims that its recently-launched Pre smartphone abuses owners’ privacy. The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm. The information included the current location of the phone and how long each application was used for. […] In its privacy policy, Palm…