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UK: Foyle Women’s Aid undertaking and follow-up

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Dissent

I guess the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) doesn’t publicly post all undertakings, as we are first finding out about an August undertaking in November, when a follow-up was conducted and disclosed. In June 2012, the ICO learned that a  folder belonging to a Criminal Justice Support worker employed by Foyle Women’s Aid, was left in a…

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UK: Council criticized for data protection breaches

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Dissent

BBC reports: A report by the Information Commissioner said “immediate action is required” to ensure Anglesey council complies requirements (sic). It said “physical security and storage standards relating to manual records within the council’s offices were not appropriate”. The council says it has agreed an action plan to address concerns and said work was already…

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GA: Hundreds of documents with personal info found along Jonesboro intersection

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dissent

Ashley Swann reports: Some local residents and business owners are on high alert after hundreds of personal documents were found scattered in the middle of a busy Jonesboro intersection. Channel 2’s Ashley Swann spoke with a man who went to help clean up the mess. “We’ve got everything from loan applications to balance sheets, to…

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CA: USPS investigating personal information breach in Menlo Park

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dissent

Vic Lee writes: Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News. A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a…

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MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…

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NZ: Westpac remains tight-lipped about privacy incident

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Dissent

Jimmy Ellingham has update on a breach first reported back in April. Westpac remains tight-lipped about a privacy breach where customer details went walkabout from one of its Palmerston North branches. The bank will not confirm if it has told affected customers what happened. Meanwhile, the man who was accused of taking documents has not…

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