An administrator working for the Federal Trade Commission began mailing refund checks Wednesday to 957,928 people who were victims of allegedly false claims made by LifeLock, Inc., which told consumers it could provide absolute protection from identity theft if they signed up for its identity protection service. The mailings will continue for two weeks. In…
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Privacy commissioner wants limits on sharing data on air travellers
Janice Tibbetts reports: Canada’s privacy commissioner says there are steps the government can take to mitigate the “significant privacy implications” for air travellers, whose names, birth dates, gender and passport information will be shared with the U.S. in the new year if they are flying over American airspace en route to other international destinations. Jennifer…
Governments should have to justify privacy-affecting laws, says ICO
Governments should be forced to report on the impact of laws which affect citizens’ privacy after they have come into force, telling Parliament whether those laws have worked and what privacy rights have been infringed, the UK’s privacy watchdog has said. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has told a Parliamentary committee that there should be…
Court says News of the World staff who ordered phone hack must be named
Nick Davies reports: The private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal has been ordered by a high court judge to reveal who instructed him to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages of public figures. Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed in January 2007 for intercepting the voicemail of eight people, had asked the…