The Australian Privacy Foundation has submitted additional comments on proposed data breach notification regulations in Australia. You can read their supplement here. Not surprisingly, I remain in substantive agreement with their recommendations.
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges Against Cbr Systems, Inc.
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Cbr Systems, Inc. failed to protect the security of customers’ personal information and that its inadequate security practices led to a breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and debit and credit card information of nearly 300,000 consumers. As part…
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his right to privacy
Shirie Leng, M.D., writes: I am affiliated with the institution where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently hospitalized. I am friends with people who have treated him. I’m trying to stay away from those people; I would be unable to help asking them about him. They might be unable to help talking about him. There has been…
Mystery over laptop stolen from psychologist whose testimony in the Jodi Arias murder trial poked holes in the accused murderer's self-defense plea
From the Daily Mail: The psychologist who testified in the Jodi Arias murder trial had her laptop stolen in February, just weeks before she was slated to testify in the highly publicized murder trial, a new report has revealed. Dr Janeen Demarte told police that the computer contained notes that pertained to the murder trial….
Official MSI Taiwan Hacked 50,000 Accounts & Other Data leaked, Sites Defaced
One of the worlds largest Hardware companies MSI has been breached in its official Taiwan server by well known hacker group Turkish Ajan Hacker Group. The attack was announced just a very short time ago from twitter by the official Turkish Ajan Hacker group twitter account @TurkishAjan which had posted a leak of information and a link to a few very…
Reporting Fail: The Reidentification of Personal Genome Project Participants
The issue of how easy – or difficult – it might be to re-identify “de-identified” data is crucial to discussions of using PHI in research. Jane Yakowitz writes: Last week, a Forbes article by Adam Tanner announced that a research team led by Latanya Sweeney had re-identified “more than 40% of a sample of anonymous participants” in…