Do you live alone? How much do you earn? What is your credit card limit and date of birth? A New Zealand Post survey probing for private information has rattled some elderly members of the public. The survey is a commercial venture for the Government-owned postal service to find out personal details and preferences to…
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Swedish ISP to appeal file sharing verdict
Swedish broadband provider Ephone has said it will appeal a controversial court ruling obliging it to hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations. The Solna District Court ruled that Ephone will face 750,000 kronor ($95,000) in fines if it fails to comply with the order to hand over information…
Woman threatens suit against Tigo over info leak
Millicom Ghana, operators of Tigo could soon be in the dock for allegedly releasing confidential information about a subscriber. A married woman, name withheld, accused the network operator of providing her ‘jealous’ husband with details of her call records. […] She was however surprised when the husband produced a detailed account of all calls she…
Employee sacked for smutty emails is reinstated
A worker sacked for sending dozens of grubby emails has got his job back after successfully arguing that the correspondence was part of a wider work culture. Philip Walker said a culture of sending emails “where the content was not likely to offend and was banter between colleagues” existed at his Safe Air workplace in…