The [New Zealand] Government’s making no apologies for revealing the welfare payments of two solo mums. Natasha Fuller, who is taking home $715 a week and Jennifer Johnston, who gets $554, have both have been complaining about their tertiary training allowances being axed. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says they’ve chosen to go public with…
Taspo data not kept private
The Tobacco Institute of Japan, the industry body of tobacco manufacturers, has turned over vending machine logs on individuals’ cigarette purchases and their personal information to prosecutors for investigative purposes, informed sources said. The logs showing the use of taspo smart cards included records of when and at which vending machines the smokers bought cigarettes,…
Google flames Tory MP Davis on privacy claims
Google had better hope former Tory shadow minister David Davis doesn’t return to a senior role in a future Conservative government. Its chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has given Davis a tongue-lashing for opposing Google Health and criticising Google’s privacy record. Davis was writing in The Sunday Times in opposition to Tories’ wish to give…
Customers take umbrage over BoA policy
Gail Jozitis isn’t the first person to walk out of a Bank of America with an empty wallet, incensed over the bank’s fingerprinting policy. As is the case with all customers who don’t have an account with the bank, when she tried earlier this month to cash a check drawn on a Bank of America…