The 10th Circuit has upheld (pdf) a ruling against Accusearch that the company violated federal law when it sold telephone records on its web site, Abika.com. The Federal Trade Commission had alleged that Accusearch’s trade in telephone records constituted an unfair practice in violation of § 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA). Accusearch…
Pa. man on trail of identity thief
The unusual news of a Thomas Parkin caught in New York impersonating his dead mother to collect her Social Security struck Thomas Parkin of Plymouth Meeting uncomfortably close to home. Almost a decade ago, the Pennsylvania Parkin reported his identity stolen – and the pattern of fraudulent finances over the years turned out to match…
Happy 4th of July!
The Humphrey Brothers, party animals. Photo: Bulldog1/Flickr, CC.
Bozeman MT to job applicants: give us your login/pwd
Bozeman MT had a policy of requiring job applicants to provide their user/pwd to social media sites. After the story got picked up in the national media, they rescinded the policy, and are now investigating how and why they even had that policy. The following video is from when the story first broke: