Jim Bronskill of The Canadian Press reports: Canada’s electronic spy agency introduced mandatory privacy awareness training for all employees in March following an internal breach involving personal information. When Greta Bossenmaier became chief of the Communications Security Establishment in February, the ultra-secret eavesdropping outfit was under intense public scrutiny over alleged spying on citizens. But…
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Right to Privacy not a fundamental right, India’s govt tells Supreme Court
The Tribune of India reports: The central government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the right to privacy was not a fundamental right under the Constitution. Central government’s arguments came when a Bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar and also composed of Justices SA Bobde and C Nagappan was hearing several petitions challenging the…
FTC Takes Action Against LifeLock for Alleged Violations of 2010 Order
Cross-posted from DataBreaches.net: The Federal Trade Commission today asserted that LifeLock violated a 2010 settlement with the agency and 35 state attorneys general by continuing to make deceptive claims about its identity theft protection services, and by failing to take steps required to protect its users’ data. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the…
New York Court Says Facebook Can’t Object to Search Warrants
Patrick G. Lee reports that it was a bad day for user privacy in a New York state appeals court: Facebook Inc. lost a bid to block the biggest set of search warrants the company said it ever received in a case that might affect the amount of information social-media sites turn over to law…