Thomas Claburn reports on an interesting breach-related lawsuit. Apparently, a Rocky Mountain Bank employee accidentally sent a confidential file containing customer names, addresses, tax identification numbers, and loan information for over 1,300 individuals and business clients to the wrong Gmail address. When the bank tried to contact the recipient of the errant email to…
Category: Court
Judge rules for Harkat over search
Andrew Duffy reports: Canada’s border agency engaged in an unauthorized intelligence-gathering exercise, rather than a legitimate search, when it raided the home of Ottawa terror suspect Mohamed Harkat, a Federal Court judge has ruled. Judge Simon Noël said Harkat’s constitutional right to privacy was seriously breached in last month’s raid, which featured 16 law enforcement…
How Facebook tried to put a shine on $9.5m privacy suit
Bobbie Johnson of Guardian’s Technology Blog is not happy that Facebook announced its Beacon-related settlement on Friday: There are few things that make me more suspicious of a company than when they push out some sort of news announcement late on a Friday afternoon. It’s almost always bad news, purposely intended to miss the news…
Internet expression, long-held rights come into conflict
Mary Flood reports: Freedom of expression may seem boundless on the Internet, but in Houston and around the nation, computer users are increasingly finding their speech is not infinitely protected. Recent Harris County cases have shown that the worldwide forum offered by the Internet ups the ante and consequences of everything from idle chatter to…