I’m a tad flabbergasted that this news outlet printed so many salacious details. Reporting on a privacy breach by revealing such sensitive details? Really? Shannon Tonkin reports: A former Wollongong job centre employee who illegally accessed her lover’s new mobile phone number after he ended their extra-marital affair will seek to have her court case…
Category: Govt
FTC to Host Workshop on Informational Injury
The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on informational injury on December 12, 2017. The FTC’s three main goals for hosting the workshop are to: “Better identify the qualitatively different types of injury to consumers and businesses from privacy and data security incidents;” “Explore frameworks for how the FTC might approach quantitatively measuring such…
WeChat confirms that it makes all private user data available to the Chinese government
Moneycontrol reports: WeChat has confirmed what has been rumoured all along i.e. it gives all user information to the Chinese government. The popular app in a privacy statement is now informing the users that virtually all the private user information will be disclosed to the authorities. WeChat, owned by the Chinese firm Tencent, is a…
DOJ: Google Won’t Fight New Warrants for Overseas Data
Ben Hancock reports: Google Inc. has told the U.S. government it will comply with new warrants for data stored on its overseas servers, as long as they are not issued by courts within the Second Circuit, the Department of Justice said in a filing Wednesday. The development marks a reversal of the company’s legal strategy…