Ben Hendry reports: A police officer has been accused of breaching data protection laws by using work computers to snoop on dozens of people – including his future wife. Constable Crawford Reay will face a string of charges when he goes on trial next month. The 47-year-old is alleged to have committed the offences at…
Category: Government Sector
Blogger Exposes Personal Data Protection Flaw on Macedonia’s Election Commission Website
Filip Stojanovski reports: Ensuring that the next elections are free and fair is crucial to the return of democracy and stability in Macedonia. A young female blogger contributed to this process by discovering a flaw related to the government’s voters’ registry web app. […] On the morning of February 10, [Kalina] Zografska published a blog post…
Ca: Fraction of those affected by breach identified
Joel Wittnebel has a follow-up on a breach involving the City of Oshawa: Despite extensive efforts, only four of the 18 individuals affected by a December 2015 privacy breach in the city’s printing services department have been identified. On Dec, 1 it was discovered that a series of pre-authorized tax payment (PAP) notices had been double-stuffed…
Five Mounties sue RCMP in alleged medical privacy breach
There’s an update to a workplace medical privacy breach involving members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). I’ve been following the case on this blog since July, 2013. In December 2014, the privacy commissioner found that the RCMP had violated the employees’ privacy by turning over their records to a psychologist. In October 2015, there was a…
British teenager arrested for ‘trying to hack into FBI computer networks’
Has another member of CWA been arrested? It sounds like it, but law enforcement hasn’t said so definitively. Jamie Bullen reports: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Glasgow for allegedly trying to hack into FBI computer networks. Police Scotland questioned the boy earlier this week watched on by FBI agents flown in from the…
TX: I-Team Investigation Revealed Massive Data Exposure In Dallas County That Went Unmitigated for Six More Months
CBS DFW sat on a data leak story since last year – trying to give Dallas County a chance to address the fact that court records freely available online contained tons of personal identity and sensitive information on residents and minor children. The station did not want to make criminals aware of the treasure trove of information,…