Brendon Tavelli writes: On January 5, 2010, Judge William Hibbler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois became the latest federal district judge to share his views about whether an increased risk of future harm based on the inadvertent exposure of personal information is a legally cognizable harm. In Rowe v….
Category: Of Note
Data Privacy Day is January 28
Data Privacy Day is January 28, and there are more events this year than in past years, with some events starting on January 20. The Data Privacy Day Project lists a number of resources and events that you will want to know about. Many of the events have now been entered on this site’s privacy…
Network flaw causes scary Web error
Jordan Robertson reports: A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch – the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T – revealed a little known…
ExposeObama.com exposes personal info
Ken Thomas of The Associated Press reports: Credit card numbers and other personal information about more than a hundred contributors to a conservative Web site unexpectedly showed up by fax at a Democratic lawmaker’s office. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said over recent weeks his office has received 139 faxes from ExposeObama.com, a Web site run…
Pizza delivery man cops to life in DarkMarket
Dan Goodin reports: A former London pizza delivery man faces a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for computer crime, several news sites reported. Renukanth Subramaniam, a 33-year-old Sri Lanka-born man from North London, pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court in London to conspiracy to defraud and furnishing false…
Online Banking and “Reasonable Security” Under the Law: Breaking New Ground?
David Navetta writes: With the report of another data security-related lawsuit involving online banking (another 2009 lawsuit referenced here involved an alleged loss of over $500,000), and a recent victory for a plaintiff on a summary judgment motion in a similar online banking data security breach case, the question arises whether online banking breaches will…