The Associated Press is reporting that some Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been put on leave after the recent fiasco where an inadequately redacted copy of their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures manual was available on the web. Simply by clicking on the redacted material clicking “cut,” one could unredact the sensitive material. Although…
80,000 Facebook users duped in bait-and-switch
Swedes received a lesson in the internet’s power for deception when a Facebook group claiming to support heart research suddenly changed into one aimed at scrapping women’s right to vote. The Facebook group originally promised it would send three kronor ($0.42) to organizations involved in heart research for every member that joined. Membership in the…
Security database super-agency’s powers should be limited, says EU privacy watchdog
The European Commission should limit the expansion of an agency it plans to create to operate the European Union’s visa and asylum databases, according to the EU’s data protection watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The Commission has proposed the creation of an agency to run the databases behind the second Schengen Information System…
Fired for Refusing To Let Bosses Use Son’s Social Security Number, Waitress Says
Barbara Leonard reports: A waitress says her managers fired her because she refused to take a bribe to let an undocumented kitchen worker use her son’s Social Security number. Sheila Everly sued Legal Sea Foods in Westchester County Court. Everly says that after she rejected bribes and threats from the Boston-based chain’s managers, she complained…