This breach, originally mentioned on my companion blog at databreaches.net, just gets worse and worse: A Tokyo publishing house has released a book containing what are believed to be Metropolitan Police Department antiterrorism documents that were leaked onto the Internet last month. Released by Dai-San Shokan Thursday, the book contains the personal information of Muslim…
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TalkTalk’s plan to develop malware warning system raises privacy hackles
Back in September, I linked to a number of news stories in the U.K. about how TalkTalk had become the talk of the privacy community for trialing a program that tracked its users’ web browsing. The purpose of the tracking was to develop a malware system that would warn its customers when they clicked on a…
Divided Supreme Court puts limit on privacy expectations
Janice Tibbetts reports on a Canadian court ruling mentioned previously on this blog: The right to privacy in one’s home is not absolute, the Supreme Court of Canada said Wednesday in a ruling that allowed police to conscript a Calgary power company to collect details of a customer’s electricity use to determine if he was…
MUST READ: DHS & TSA: Making a list, checking it twice
I have no way of verifying the accuracy of this column by Doug Hagmann, but think it’s so troubling that it needs to be shared in case the memo is exactly as he summarizes it: Following the publication of my article titled “Gate Rape of America,” I was contacted by a source within the DHS…