Richard Rush reports: Contact details of members of the public who had put in Freedom of Information requests to Charnwood Borough Council were accidently leaked on to the internet in one of three data breaches by the authority during the past five years. Other documents accidently uploaded on to the borough council’s website were lists…
Category: Exposure
UK: Data protection laws broken 13 times by Companies House
Alun Jones reports: Confidential and personal details were sent to the wrong people by staff at Companies House in Cardiff, BBC Wales has learned. A Freedom of Information request revealed 13 breaches of data protection law at the agency’s headquarters in 2014. Read more on BBC.
Jeb Bush’s privacy-shattering email cache hid another surprise: Viruses
Martyn Williams reports: In addition to personal phone numbers and email addresses for hundreds of people who corresponded with him, there’s something else inside the cache of emails that Jeb Bush released this week: computer viruses. Earlier this week, Bush, who some tip as a presidential hopeful, released thousands of emails from his time as…
Jeb Bush exposes 12,000 to ID theft after posting emails online
AP reports: It was meant to be a politically astute gesture of transparency, and would prove his tech credentials to boot. But when Jeb Bush posted online all his personal emails from his eight years as Florida’s governor, he failed to realise that tucked away in the 332,999 messages were the names, birthdates and Social…
Jeb Bush Redacting Sensitive Information in Email Dump
Shushannah Walshe report: Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year. The potential 2016 presidential candidate released over 275,000 e mails in the…
Jeb Bush probably won’t be running on a privacy platform after doxxing everyone
Maybe one of the qualifications for President in the Constitution should be: “Has the common sense not to expose everyone’s personal information to the world.” T.C. Sottek reports: Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida….