Adam Steinbaugh, who has been all over this case from the get-go, writes: Last month, the FTC announced it intends to enter into a consent agreement with Craig Brittain, the operator of revenge porn site “Is Anybody Down?” Brittain pretended to be a woman on Craigslist to deceive women into sending him nude photos, mocked their pleas to remove the photos, then concocted an ‘independent’…
Category: Govt
White House releases draft bill to protect consumer data privacy
Roberta Rampton reports: The White House released draft legislation on Friday that would give consumers more control over how the trail of data they leave behind them on the internet is used, stored and sold. The 24-page “discussion draft” on data privacy immediately sparked sharp reaction from the technology industry, which said the proposal would…
UK: Scottish plans for central identity database spark privacy criticism
Severin Carrell reports: Privacy and civil rights campaigners have urged the Scottish government to drop plans for a new identity database which could allow public bodies, including tax authorities, to share every adult’s private data. Scottish ministers have been accused of introducing a central database by stealth after civil servants quietly published plans to expand an NHS register…
NZ government agency accidentally discloses informant’s identity to employer after workplace complaint
Oops. The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office has posted a summary of a case it investigated. The gist of the situation is that a woman made a complaint about her employer to a government agency and asked that they keep her name confidential. But when the government investigator went to the workplace, the investigator showed the employer…