FTC "history sniffing" settlement meaningless or the start of something bigger *

USA - December 6 2012
The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday a settlement with Epic Marketplace, an online advertising network, which prohibits Epic from further collection of data obtained by "browser sniffing" the surfing history of Internet users and requires Epic to destroy all previously collected data.

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Hacking and reading someone's online email just got easier in South Carolina *

USA - October 12 2012
Earlier this week the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that accessing another person’s online (personal) email is not a violation of the federal Stored Communications Act.

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Website operators with U.K. directed websites or web pages now subject to "cookie law" *

United Kingdom - May 30 2012
In its continuing efforts to give the State of California a run for its money when it comes to privacy rights, the United Kingdom’s “cookie law” is now in effect.

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An example of the right way to handle a data breach: Motorola Xoom *

USA - February 14 2012
You may have read that Motorola announced on February 3rd that it inadvertently sold around 100 refurbished Motorola Xoom tablets through Woot.com without putting the tablets through the typical process of doing a factory reset and wiping any personal data that may have been left by the original owner(s).

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Data breach potentially affects up to 100,000 students, 3,000 employees *

USA - January 14 2012
The San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that officials at the City College of San Francisco discovered a few days after Thanksgiving 2010 that certain computers of the college have been infested with active malware for more than a decade.

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