Terror warnings in Germany have triggered a new debate on the country’s data protection laws — and revealed yet another fracture in Chancellor Merkel’s government. The Justice Ministry and the Interior Ministry are at odds, and the fronts are hardening. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, a member of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), has requested…
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Jp: ‘Leaked MPD data’ out as book
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…
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…
AU: WA cops get Facebook warning about posting photos
Nicole Cox reports: WA Police have been banned from posting photos of themselves in police uniform, police-issue weapons and the force’s logo on social networking sites such as Facebook. The sweeping security crackdown comes amid fears sensitive information could be leaked and investigations compromised by officers who upload personal information on popular internet sites including…