AMSTERDAM – December 10, 2015 – Nearly two-thirds (64%) of consumers surveyed worldwide say they are unlikely to shop or do business again with a company that had experienced a breach where financial information was stolen, and almost half (49%) had the same opinion when it came to data breaches where personal information was stolen. This is according to…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
OPM hit for mishandling data breach cleanup
Tal Koppan reports: The federal agency that had more than 21 million Americans’ personal information stolen in a massive hack is once again in congressional cross-hairs — this time for improperly doling out taxpayer dollars to protect those Americans after the data breach. The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general released a report this month,…
Ca: Federal departments reported 256 data breaches in 2014-15
Leslie Young reports: Federal institutions reported 256 data breaches in 2014-15, according to the annual report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. That’s up from 228 breaches the year before – which was double the number from the year before that. Read more on Global News.
Small-Scale Violations of Medical Privacy Often Cause the Most Harm
Note: the following article was reported by Charles Ornstein of ProPublica, Dec. 10, 2015, 5 a.m. and is reproduced under Creative Commons license. Although Ornstein did not mention it in his reporting, the case of Tami Matteson was previously covered on this site in 2013 in a post entitled ” ‘Small’ breach, big harm.” In that article,…
Ca: Alberta Health department flouts privacy law, watchdog finds
Matt McClure reports: Alberta Health is flouting the law by failing to provide the required oversight to prevent snooping and privacy breaches involving electronic health records, says the province’s privacy watchdog. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner released an investigation report Wednesday that found a legally-mandated committee charged with overseeing stewardship of data made…
Hackers Could Take Control Of Your Car, But You Can’t Sue Carmakers For That Risk
Eric Goldman writes: Cars contain millions of lines of software code, which makes them tempting targets for hackers. Further, with the increased automation of cars, we face growing risks that malicious hackers will remotely take control of cars and cause significant personal or property damage. Ideally, car manufacturers would be actively combating this risk, but…