Michael Ramsey reports: Western Australia’s health department has apologised for accidentally leaking the personal details of passengers aboard a flight carrying a person infected with monkeypox. A woman who travelled on the flight from Doha last week said she received the document in an email from WA Health. It contained the personal information of 47…
Immigration Activists Say LexisNexis Sells Personal Data to ICE
Samantha Hawkins reports: LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. collects personal information from consumers and sells it to corporations, law enforcement, and government agencies without their consent, according to a complaint filed by immigration activists in an Illinois circuit court Tuesday. The activists claim LexisNexis’ practice of selling personal data through the online platform Accurint violates the privacy…
NaviStone on Hook Again for Tracking Consumer Website Activity
Samantha Hawkins reports: Harriet Carter Gifts Inc. and NaviStone Inc. once again face liability for tracking consumer activity on Harriet Carter’s website, after the Third Circuit held Tuesday that the tracking might have violated Pennsylvania’s electronic surveillance law. Ashley Popa sued Harriet Carter after learning that marketing service NaviStone tracked her activities across the store’s…
Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
Emily Mullin reports: If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had established newborn screening programs, in which a nurse takes a few…