It’s difficult to believe that such things go on in some parts of the world. The finger test examination, conducted on the victims of sexual violence, infringes upon their privacy and is violative of their Constitutional rights, a Delhi court has held. The court stressed the need for sensitising the police to avoid such practice…
Author: Dissent
UK: Darwen firm’s customer data posted online
Catherine Pye reports: Crown Paints could be fined for data breaches after publishing personal details of hundreds of customers online. Enquiries and complaints entered this year on Crown’s Decorating Centre website, featuring home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses were made public after an internet hitch on Friday morning. The Darwen-based company is now being…
Tempering justice with mercy?
A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…
Nigerian national sentenced to 102 months for role in airline ticket scam
Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was sentenced this week to 102 months in prison for using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady also ordered Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. The defendant has agreed to…
County employee resigns after laptop stolen
When the economy’s tough, people generally do not want to resign from their jobs, but in the wake of an embarrassing data breach, Carol Vaughn reports: The Accomack County employee whose county-issued laptop computer was stolen from a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month has resigned. The information technology department employee, who was supervised…
MetLife reports employee snooped on files of public figures
MetLife, who reported in August that an employee had been sharing disability insurance applications with an unauthorized individual, recently received more bad news. According to a letter they sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the third-party provider whose database they use to run searches on individuals in the course of their business recently…