David Navetta of InfoSecCompliance provides an overview of a new law in Maine that limits the collection of personal information of minors. The law, which goes into effect on September 12, 2009, has a provision for an individual cause of action in state court, unlike many privacy laws that do not provide for an individual…
Category: Youth & Schools
Two businessmen plead guilty to privacy law violations
Len R. Breidert, a senior financial specialist at Student Funding Services, and David M. Brabson, marketing director for University Financial Lending Services, pleaded guilty to obtaining unauthorized access to the National Student Loan Database and to violating the Privacy Act by obtaining an individual’s record. Each faces a maximum penalty of a year in federal…
Court upholds IL abortion notification law
The 7th Circuit on Tuesday upheld a latent Illinois law requiring doctors to notify the parents of teenage girls seeking abortions, calling it “a permissible attempt to help a young woman make an informed choice about whether to have an abortion.” In a case spanning nearly 25 years, a group of physicians challenged the Illinois…
Oregon teen arrest in extortion “prank”
The Associated Press reports that an Oregon teenager hacked into two female college students’ social networking accounts and then demanded nude photos to unlock the accounts. The unnamed youth may face computer crime and theft by extortion charges. The boy reportedly admitted hacking into the accounts of the two women, both of whom he grew…