A diverse group of expert volunteers including executives from US financial institutions, legal firms, software suppliers and law enforcement agencies, have come together to form a group that aims to show how ID data breaches can best be stopped. The FBI, computer products distributor Avnet and SSL certificate authority GoDaddy.com are a few of the…
Pearl district sued over alleged Facebook incident
The family of Mandi Jackson, a Pearl High School student in Mississippi, is reportedly suing the school district for $50 million, alleging that their daughter is being shunned after a cheerleading coach read e-mails on her Facebook account two years ago and shared the emails with others. On Sept. 10, 2007, Hill allegedly asked members…
Camera law irks Greek privacy watchdog
Greece’s privacy watchdog yesterday slammed an amendment, recently passed in Parliament, which paves the way for authorities to use surveillance cameras without restrictions, saying that it provides no safeguards governing how personal data will be handled. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (APPD) has been locked in a dispute with the government and the police since…
Merton council caught snooping on residents
Another UK council has been reportedly misusing anti-terrorism law to snoop on residents. This time, it’s Merton Council. According to a report in Your Local Guardian: Anti-terror laws have been used by Merton Council to snoop on residents, for petty offences ranging from breaching smoking bans to fly-tipping, 39 times since 2006, the Wimbledon Guardian…