Sasha Romanosky writes: I imagine most of you have received one or more letters from companies informing you that they lost your personal information. If so, what, if anything, did you do about it? Did you check your credit history?; close a financial account?; something else?; or nothing at all? If you did act, you…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
ZA: Credit card fraud costs CT officials millions, but cases are down
Nathan Adams reports some statistics from Western Cape in South Africa that may be of interest to those who want to compare trends internationally: Western Cape police on Tuesday said credit card fraud cost provincial officials nearly R16 million this year. This type of fraud has decreased both in the Western Cape and nationally. […]…
Data Breach Investigation | Due Process of Law
The following is cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: In September, I posted an excerpt from a thought-provoking commentary by attorney Benjamin Wright. In discussing a fine levied against Lucile Salter Packard Hospital for late notification under California’s breach notification law, he had written, in part: The California Legislature made clear it wants notices to be issued quickly. However,…
Stonewalled? Guttenberg housing residents still worried
Back in August, I reported a breach involving the Guttenberg Housing Authority in New Jersey that had reportedly left many housing residents and housing applicants on the waiting list confused and worried due to the lack of information in the notifications. Three months later, Tricia Tirella of the Hudson Reporter reports that residents are still…
UK: Small fines for a big problem
Not everyone thinks the ICO made a good decision in the first fines it levied for violation of the Data Protection Act. Jason Stampers writes, in part: But anyone hoping that the ICO was going to come down hard on such breaches will be dismayed. Since the ICO now has the power to levy fines…
DPA fines – why ICO got it right
Stewart Room writes about the first fines imposed by the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office: I’ve heard two arguments that are critical of the ICO fines. They go something like this: (1) the fines were too low and (2) it’s wrong of ICO to fine a Local Authority when it didn’t fine Google. Let me try…