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ZA: Credit card fraud costs CT officials millions, but cases are down

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Dissent

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. […]…

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Data Breach Investigation | Due Process of Law

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dissent

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,…

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Stonewalled? Guttenberg housing residents still worried

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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UK: Small fines for a big problem

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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DPA fines – why ICO got it right

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Liberty Coalition gives University of Hawaii an ‘F’ for data breaches

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Dissent

In a news report headlined, “Data breaches earn UH an ‘F’,” Gordon Y.K. Pang reports: A national organization has given the University of Hawaii a grade of “F” for online security breaches that exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information in nearly 260,000 records. The Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit civil liberties watchdog group, yesterday…

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