The UK is to share fingerprint information with Canada and Australia, with the US and New Zealand to follow soon, the Home Office said today. The collaboration will make it easier to detect people with criminal histories in other countries, speed up deportations and establish previously unknown identities, the Home Office said. The new data-sharing…
Two charged with leaking BNP membership list (update 1)
The Press Association reports that two people have been charged under the Data Protection Act following the leak of the British National Party membership list on the internet last year. The BBC adds that the two are a man aged 27 and a woman aged 30 and that they were arrested in Brinsley, Nottinghamshire: They…
Hacker Mitnick may sue AT&T over data breach
After having his AT&T wireless account breached and his personal information posted on the Web, famed hacker Kevin Mitnick thought the least the cellular service provider could do was compensate him for his troubles. Instead, the company informed Mitnick it plans to cancel his contract and not pay damages for the breach, he said. (His…
A new study on privacy online in Israel
Calls to better safeguard users’ privacy online and improve protection of personal data on the Internet are commonplace. The concerns about privacy issues are sometimes coupled with demanding higher legal standards of protection pertaining to access and use of personal data obtained over the Internet by third parties, may they be the government and its…