Patricia Ballin reports: Generating a flurry of conversation among privacy professionals worldwide, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week filed its response to Wyndham Worldwide Corporation’s interlocutory appeal in the Third Circuit. […] The FTC’s response outlines and affirmatively answers the three questions presented in Wyndham’s appeal: whether a company’s unreasonable failure to protect the security…
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Retailers are skirting data security issue, NAFCU, trades tell Congress
The National Association of Federal Credit Unions writes: Retailer groups’ data security arguments are “inaccurate and misleading” given their members “are not covered by any federal laws or regulations that require them to protect data and notify consumers when it is breached,” NAFCU and six other financial trades told House and Senate leaders Wednesday. “National…
Update: South Carolina extends free ID theft protection through October 2015
WMBF reports that South Carolina taxpayers are getting one more year of free IDtheft protection from CSID for the security breach in 2012 that compromised 3.8 million taxpayers’ data.
Civilian employee for Coast Guard accused of stealing personal information
Kaitlyn Naples reports: A Connecticut man who is an information technology contractor for the United States Coast Guard has pled guilty to stealing personal information. The United States District Attorney said Larry Mathews, 34, of Pawcatuck pled guilty to stealing information found on hundreds of computers and personal electronic devices that had been brought to…
USIS parent ordered to turn over security data by House committee Democrats
Well, I’m not sure why their headline says “ordered,” when it’s still an “ask,” but Jill R. Aitoro reports: The parent company and private equity owner of U.S. Investigations Services LLC is being asked by a congressional committee to turn over a laundry list of information about the security of USIS’s computer networks. The Nov. 12 letter…
FTC Alleges Debt Brokers Illegally Exposed Personal Information of Tens of Thousands of Consumers on the Internet
Here’s the FTC’s press release on an enforcement action I had noted on this blog when it originally reported by Courthouse News: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has ordered two debt sellers that posted the sensitive personal information of more than 70,000 consumers online to notify the consumers and…