As an update to a case I’ve been following here and on phiprivacy.net: Corey Means was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison and Melba Wilson to eight months home detention for their involvement in a million dollar identity theft tax scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced. According to court documents,…
Two City Of Miami Police Officers And One State Corrections Officer Arrested And Charged For Selling Identity Info for Tax Refund Fraud Schemes
Law enforcement in Miami has its hands full investigating tax refund fraud schemes. It doesn’t help when three law enforcement officers are involved in those schemes. Bernard Beliard, a Florida Department of Corrections officer assigned to the South Florida Reception Center, and Vital Frederick and Malinzky Bazile – two Miami Police Department officers – were arrested yesterday and charged in…
New U.S. Supreme Court Decision Will Likely Impact Data Breach Litigation
Rebecca J. Schwartz writes: On February 26, 2013, the United States Supreme Court in Clapper v. Amnesty International confirmed a demanding threshold showing for plaintiffs suing based on increased risk of harm in privacy-related. The decision effectively resolves a circuit split over the application of the Article III standing requirement in data breach cases. Plaintiffs must show that the…
ICO: Companies Laissez Faire over BYOD personal data
Antony Savvas reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) says many employers “appear to have a laissez faire attitude” to allowing staff to use their personal devices for business, which may be placing people’s personal information at risk. ICO commissioned YouGov to question 2,150 UK adults, which found that almost half (47 percent) now use their…
Bank of America Gets A Burn Notice
Krypt3ia analyzes the BofA leak, which I had mentioned on this blog, here. Here’s a snippet from his post: One of the problems I have with the Paranoia analysis is that they take it to the conspiratorial level and make it out to be some pseudo CIA like entity. The reality though is that from…
RQRHA did not adequately protect health information
Pamela Cowan reports: The Regina Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority (RQRHA) failed to follow provisions of the Health Information Protection Act (HIPA) in a 2010 privacy breach, according to Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. Gary Dickson’s office began an investigation into the Regina breach after 15 addressograph cards – blue cards attached to patients’ charts when…