Leigh Holmwood reports that the BBC got its wrist-slapped over a somewhat inexplicable mistake in which a real person’s mobile telephone number was displayed during a soap opera, leading to the real person getting thousands of unwanted text messages and calls: Character Ricky Butcher was seen receiving texts from wayward missus Sam Mitchell as he…
Category: Non-U.S.
Muslim leaders furious over phone tapping in Muslim-dominated cities
Mumtaz Alam Falahi reports: Patna: Muslim community leaders are furious over phone tapping by intelligence agencies in Muslim dominated areas in Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad, and have demanded the government to make the agencies accountable. The disclosure about the tapping was made in the latest issue of English weekly Outlook. The magazine has also said…
Google gets no sympathy from non-U.S. courts
Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday. A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s…
UK: Queen’s tailor sues former employee
Harry Wallop reports on what would be considered an “insider breach” over on databreaches.net: Britain’s oldest tailor, Ede & Ravenscroft, is suing a former employee, which it accuses of stealing vital customer data. The company, sells not just bespoke suits but is also supplies gowns to all the Oxbridge colleges and robes to the House…