Bill Sizemore and Julian Walker report: The kNOw Campaign, the source of an aborted mass mailing that would have disclosed many Virginians’ personal voting history days before the Nov. 3 election, is defying the State Board of Elections’ demand that it reveal where the data came from.In an escalating battle, the nonprofit group sued the…
Yahoo! gets no comfort from Cryptome (and the band plays on)
As reported on PogoWasRight.org earlier this week, Yahoo! sent a DMCA takedown notice to John Young, administrator of Cryptome.org, over its posting of their compliance guide for law enforcement agents wishing to obtain customer or subscriber information. The guide describes all of the types of information Yahoo! collects, how long it retains it for, and…
Ca: Telemarketer’s collection and disclosure of personal information deemed to be non-consensual
PIPEDA Case Summary #2008-398 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada received complaints one year apart from two individuals who claimed that telemarketing agents from a particular bank had collected their personal information for a credit card application without consent. One of the complainants alleged that the bank had disclosed her personal information to…
Ca: Bank not responsible after new account was opened using stolen identity
PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-012: A fraudster used forged identification of an individual to open a bank account in the individual’s name. When the fraud was discovered, the individual realized that the fraudster had also used an invalid address and telephone number when applying for the account. The victim claimed the bank could have avoided the…