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No jail time for cop who stole and shared suspects’ nudes

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Dissent

Miles Klee reports a less-than-impressive sentence in a privacy breach case involving a police officer: Weeks after the state secured its first conviction under a new revenge porn law, a California Highway Patrol officer pled no contest to felony charges over duplicating and sharing intimate photos found on the phones of women in his custody—and got three years’ probation. Sean Harrington,…

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United website breach let fliers see each others’ private data

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Dissent

I reported on the United Airlines MileagePlus incident earlier this month, but now Cory Doctorow is reporting yet another breach involving United Airlines: My wife came back from giving a conference speech in Las Vegas in December with the weirdest story: when she fired up the United check-in mobile site, she found herself looking at…

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TX: Tax documents from BBS, Inc. found in dumpster

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Dissent

A Houston tax preparer, BBS, Inc. (also known as Bill’s Bookkeeping Service)  linked to hundreds of improperly discarded documents containing personal information said that an employee was to blame for the improper disposal. Joel Eisenbaum reports on Click2Houston.

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IE: Investigations to examine why farmers’ files found on Galway roadside

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Dissent

Alison Healy reports: Three investigations are now underway into how thousands of documents containing farmers’ personal details ended up on a roadside outside Tuam, Co Galway. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner and Galway County Council both said they were investigating the incident. The Agricultural Consultants’ Association also said it was trying to get to the bottom of the incident. Read…

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Wandera Finds Official NFL App to be Leaking Users’ Personal Data Just Days Ahead of The Big Game

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Dissent

The following is a press release from Wandera. So far, I haven’t found a response from NFL Mobile, but if I do, I’ll update this.  While NFL fans across the country are gearing up to watch the big game on February 1 at University of PhoenixStadium in Glendale, Arizona, hackers may be snatching their private data from the mobile devices in…

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University of Oregon unlawfully releases 22,000 pages with confidential faculty, staff and student records

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Dissent

Richard Read reports: University of Oregon officials have placed two employees on leave after the “unlawful release” of 22,000 pages of records from the president’s office, including confidential information on faculty, staff and students. Interim UO President Scott Coltrane sent out an email Tuesday night, addressed to colleagues, saying an investigation was underway. Although no Social Security numbers, financial…

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