Illinois AG sues ID Lifeguards for fake charges on residents’ phone bills
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Businesses, Court
First Lifelock got into trouble over its business practices. Now it’s ID Lifeguards. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County Circuit Court alleging that a Web-based California business signed up and charged thousands of Illinois consumers for identity protection... Read more...
Macmillan pays heavily for violation of privacy
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Businesses, Court, Non-U.S.
Gowenius Toka reports: Botswana’s popular publishing company, Macmillan Botswana, avoided being arraigned before the Lobatse High Court last week by settling out of court, after publishing without consent, the photo of a certain Botsanyang Motswere in a school textbook under a chapter on HIV and... Read more...
Can Privacy Sell Ping?
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Businesses, Featured Headlines, Internet
Riva Richmond reports: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information privacy on Wednesday when it introduced Ping, its music-focused social-networking service for the 160 million users of its iTunes service. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive,... Read more...
In: Personal details sold for a song
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Businesses, Non-U.S.
Sameer Ranjan Bakshir reports: Personal data of people, whether address, email ID or phone number, cannot be sold. But you can still buy a ‘database’ that includes two crore email IDs and 10 lakh phone numbers of IT professionals for as low as Rs 2,500. The Reserve Bank of India and Telecom Regulatory... Read more...
My: Probe into leak of text messages, phone calls
August 30, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Breaches, Businesses, Non-U.S.
The alleged leak of confidential text messages and telephone conversations of a woman is now being probed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The MCMC is checking to ascertain if the telecommunication company had committed any offence. The directive to investigate came... Read more...