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Maine: Student SSN Collection for Tracking On Hold After Data Breach

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dissent

I’ve previously covered the new law in Maine that asks parents to provide their children’s Social Security Numbers so that the state can track the students.  A number of school boards had the wisdom to write to the parents and basically say, “Look, we have to ask you for it, but we encourage you to…

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Will ACS:Law become the first to feel the hammer of the ICO?

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dissent

Peter Griffiths of Reuters reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday it will investigate reports that hackers broke into a law firm’s computers and leaked the details of thousands of Sky broadband customers alleged to have shared pornographic films. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it would check whether London-based ACS:Law breached the Data Protection…

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UK: Thousands more exposed on ACS:Law file-sharing lists

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dissent

Daniel Emery reports that the number of people affected by the ACS:Law breach is rising: The personal details of a further 8,000 people alleged to have shared music or films illegally have appeared online. A list of more than 8,000 Sky broadband subscribers and a second of 400 PlusNet users surfaced following a security breach…

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Information for Thousands of Columbia University Medical Center Patients on Internet (updated)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

MyFoxNY reports: Personal information — including names and some clinical data — of thousands of patients at Columbia University Medical Center ended up freely visible on the Internet, Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have confirmed. The information on 6,800 patients was “inadvertently” placed on a server, hospital officials reported. But whose server? Were the data posted to one of…

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When tables turn: ACS:Law now on defense?

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

MarkJ writes: Controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law UK (Andrew Crossley), which last week had all of its dirty email communication laundry leaked across the internet (here), is now facing more problems after Privacy International (PI) announced that it would take  legal action against the firms breach of sensitive personal details. The emails were reportedly revealed on the evening of…

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“Human error” exposed sellers’ names on Etsy.com

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Dissent

Due to an “internal human coding error,” online marketplace Etsy.com exposed over 1,900 sellers’ real names on their website on September 20 instead of their shops’ names. In a post on its website, Chad Dickerson explained: We had an issue in Treasury earlier today where the “full name” field that we gather at seller registration…

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