Harry Wallop reports on what would be considered an “insider breach” over on databreaches.net: Britain’s oldest tailor, Ede & Ravenscroft, is suing a former employee, which it accuses of stealing vital customer data. The company, sells not just bespoke suits but is also supplies gowns to all the Oxbridge colleges and robes to the House…
Category: Court
Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of petition signatures
This upcoming case has been discussed on this site before, but Janet I. Tu of the Seattle Times has a nice overview of the case for those who are not already familiar with the issues: The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear a Washington state case that could decide whether signing a petition for…
Data Redaction: You’re Doing it Wrong
John Bambenek writes: PDF files are a common way to distribute documents on the Internet and even are used for distributing documents with redacted (removed) content. However, when you distribute redacted documents make sure that the data you don’t want out there isn’t, in fact, still in the file. Case in point, take the upcoming…
MD court: Police may use trash to get a suspect’s DNA
Scott Daugherty reports: Police may sift through a suspect’s trash, collect a genetic sample and send it off for DNA testing without a warrant, the state’s highest court ruled last week in upholding a 2007 county rape conviction. The 5-2 opinion by the state’s Court of Appeals – which was issued Thursday in Annapolis –…