Sydney Kawadza reports: The Public Service Commission has blocked an attempt by the World Bank to access the personal data of State employees, which it claims it needs for an audit of the civil service. Senior Government officials on Monday said the World Bank’s request was in contravention of certain laws and they suspected the…
Study: Consumers Equate BT With ‘Privacy Harm’
Wendy Davis reports: …. When privacy advocates complain about behavioral targeting techniques, industry executives tend to respond by condemning the critics as ivory-tower elitists. But new research is increasingly casting doubt on the idea that the average consumer doesn’t care about behavioral targeting. In September, a telephone survey of 1,000 people revealed that two out…
AU: No jail for ex-cop over sex snooping
The AAP reports: A former West Australian detective has escaped a jail term for using the police computer system to access the details of more than a dozen women he fancied. John Lawrence Curran, 46, was given a seven-month suspended sentence and fined $1000 after pleading guilty in Perth Magistrates Court to 16 counts of…
Southwestern Bell sued for alleged DMV data grab
Joe Harris reports: Southwestern Bell is the latest in a series of class-action defendants accused of using misrepresentations to get confidential data from a Department of Motor Vehicles database “for commercial purposes.” The complaint against SW Bell is the third that Kansas City attorney Mitchell Burgess has filed for clients. The first, against the Source…