Taylor Holland reports: Students who had at least one failing midterm grade during the Fall 2011 semester received an email on Oct. 26 from the office of Lowell Davis, the assistant dean of students, notifying them of their grade and potential ways to improve it. Students who received the email were not blind copied in…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Private children’s ministry papers dumped in trash bin
CTV reports: The B.C. government is dealing with another privacy breach after confidential documents from the Ministry of Children and Family Development were found dumped in a garbage bin. The documents were discovered dumped in a green dumpster behind a Victoria apartment building last week, and contain client names, addresses, birth dates and health card…
IE: Personnel files found dumped in industrial estate
Ralph Riegel reports: Files containing confidential information on private security staff were discovered in a box left unattended in an industrial estate. An investigation by the Data Protection Agency (DPA) is now under way into the discovery of files at Frankfield Industrial Estate in Cork. The files were removed by Cork County Council officials yesterday…
Louisiana law firm thinks it’s okay to dump records in trash, unshredded? Seriously, folks?
Don’t lawyers have a duty of confidentiality – apart from any state laws that might apply – about disposal of records with personal information? I am, well, frankly annoyed at all the news reports I’ve seen about lawyers or law firms not disposing of records securely. Here’s yet another one, this time from Louisiana: Below…
Federal gov. website ‘glitch’ compromised college students’ social security numbers
Lauren Chooljian reports: Private financial information belonging to as many as 5,000 college students was open for viewing on a federal government student loan website in recent weeks, according to a senior Department of Education staff member. James Runcie, the Obama administration’s Chief Operation Officer of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education, said…
AL: Discarded personal information discovered in Shelby County
A FOX6 News viewer says personal information on hundreds of people was discovered in a trash storage company in Shelby County. Susan Beaty found copies of social security cards, driver’s licenses and even a paycheck stub. They are connected to “Indigo Joe’s” restaurant which is no longer in business. […] Read more on MyFoxAL