Erica Gann Kitaev of BakerHostetler has a recap of some privacy lawsuits in 2012: During 2012, privacy class actions continued to trend toward two major categories: 1) actions that arose out of a data breach event and 2) actions brought to prosecute an alleged consumer privacy right. Read her recap here.
Schleswig-Holstein’s data protection commissioner tells Facebook that they must allow pseudonyms
Louise Osborne reports: A German state data protection agency has threatened Facebook’s billionaire founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg with a €20,000 (£16,000) fine if Facebook does not allow Germans to have anonymous accounts on the social network. In letters to Zuckerberg in California, and also to Dublin-based Facebook Ireland Ltd, the data protection commissioner…
IRS Proposes Truncated Taxpayer Identification Numbers to Curb Identity Theft
Michael Cohn reports: The Internal Revenue Service has issued proposed regulations to create a new taxpayer identifying number known as the IRS Truncated Taxpayer Identification Number, or TTIN, that can be used instead of a Social Security number in response to the growing problem of identity theft-related tax fraud. Read more on AccountingToday.
Yet a third alleged breach involving the Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services database
It’s deja vu all over again: there’s another lawsuit in Minnesota over improper access to the state’s driver’s license database. This time, however, it’s not a police officer suing over improper access by colleagues. David Hanners reports: A former Minneapolis bureaucrat claims that co-workers and other city officials repeatedly looked up her state driver’s license…