Clay Calvert, Professor & Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication and Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, has an article in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy. Here’s how the article begins: “I just killed my two kids. . . . I drowned them. ….
Author: Dissent
Article: Once More Unto the Breach: An Analysis of Legal, Technological and Policy Issues Involving Data Breach Notification Statutes
Dana Lesemann of the Howard University School of Law has an article of note in the Akron Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 4, p. 203, 2010. Here’s the abstract: Companies facing the loss of a laptop or a compromised server have long waged battles on several fronts: investigating the source of the breach, identifying potentially criminal…
Stolen and sold: Private details of thousands of World Cup fans
Jason Lewis reports on the FIFA breach that was mentioned on this site last month (here). The personal details of thousands of football fans who bought World Cup tickets from official FIFA outlets have been stolen and sold for up to £500,000. […] The data breach first emerged in Scandinavia where the details of 50,000…
Another lawsuit challenges ObamaCare on privacy grounds
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UK: Bungling West Midlands medics lose 12,000 private patient records
Jonny Greatrex reports: Bungling Midland medics have lost the personal records of nearly 12,000 NHS patients in just eight months, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. The incredible data loss includes the confidential files of 10,000 people – taken after criminals stole a server from a dental practice. Other incidents saw more than 170 private patient…
Imprisoned “Greenpoint Crew” member hit with new ID theft charges
Michaelangelo Conte reports: Two New York men who were once based in Bayonne have been charged with running a massive identity theft ring using dozens of people in numerous states to buy high-end items and withdraw cash using stolen account information, officials said. Abraham Lajos Berger, 56, and Alexei Kulakov, 38, of Brooklyn, were arrested…