An elaborate fraud syndicate allegedly masterminded by a Sydney man has been brought down, after millions of dollars were spent using more than 1,200 fake credit cards, the Australian Associated Press reported. Personal information was stolen from card holders in Australia, Malaysia, Spain, and Britain, then allegedly used by the syndicate to manufacture fake credit…
Don’t Call it “Hacking”
The UT student accused of accessing former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail was in court Tuesday, arguing for the charges against him to be dismissed. The judge will decide most of the issues discussed in court Tuesday at a later time. But both sides agreed to not use the word “hacking” at trial. Instead,…
Redford USD Mail Error Exposes SSNs
Employees in the Redford Union School District noticed a problem Tuesday with a mailing they received telling them about a new dental coverage plan. The envelopes that contained the information had the employees’ social security numbers listed on the address labels, where the zip codes should have been…. The district said the dental coverage carrier,…
NZ: Insurers risking breaking privacy law, says privacy commissioner
Amiri Halberg reports: A report by the privacy commissioner released today says that insurers, by asking full patient notes, have been risking breaking privacy law. Investigations held by Marie Shroff have discovered that insurers have been crossing limits in requesting full medical notes going back a number of years, when insuring people or paying out…
UK: Amending the law on the DNA database needs proper scrutiny
From a commentary by David Pannick, QC: Last December the European Court of Human Rights decided in S and Marper v The United Kingdom that the retention by the State of DNA profiles is a breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. That is because information about people arrested for, or…
NA: HIV Testing Controversy
Wezi Tjaronda reports: The Legal Assistance Centre is taking a medical doctor and a lodge owner to court for allegedly testing 22 workers of the hotel for HIV without their consent in what could be the largest and maybe the first case in Namibia concerning non-consensual HIV testing. The 22 workers want to hold Dr Gerhard…