Marisa Taylor reports: U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books. Federal officials gathered the information from the customer records of two…
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Privacy groups seek FTC probe of Google, Yahoo for exposing data to NSA
Jai Vijayan reports: Several advocacy groups are calling for an investigation into Internet companies Yahoo and Google whose networks were secretly accessed by the National Security Agency (NSA). In a letter sent Wednesday, the groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) find out how the NSA could to extract so much data without the knowledge of…
Senators challenge head of Dodd-Frank agency on financial snooping
Brendan Bordelon reports: The director of Dodd-Frank’s chief enforcement agency clashed Tuesday with the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee over the agency’s sweeping collection of Americans’ personal finance records. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray visited Capitol Hill to testify before the committee as part of a semi-annual report to Congress….
NZ: Hop cards info sharing under fire
Mathew Dearnaley reports: Auckland Transport is under fire for claiming a right to pass personal information about Hop card users to third parties unless specifically asked not to. The council body is urging users of its new $100 million electronic ticketing system to register their AT Hop cards to safeguard any stored credit if those…