Craig Timberg reports: After security researcher Jeffrey Paul upgraded the operating system on his MacBook Pro last week, he discovered that several of his personal files had found a new home – on the cloud. The computer had saved the files, which Paul thought resided only on his own encrypted hard drive, to a remote…
Month: October 2014
KR: Police search of telecom services surges: report
Yonhap News reports: The number of police searches and seizures into telecommuication services, such as popular mobile messenger service Kakao Talk, has surged under the Park Geun-hye administration, a report showed Monday. A total of 1,099 search and seizure warrants were executed by police officers to confiscate Kakao Talk chats, emails and other messages in…
UK: Family’s house swap fails after housing company breaches data protection laws
Jon Sharman reports: A Chessington family’s house move was scuppered when a housing company breached data protection laws by sharing information about the family with a third party. Paragon Community Housing was judged by a government watchdog to have breached the Data Protection Act by telling a prospective house swapper of anti-social noise complaints against Edd Denim’s…
Facebook Snooping By First Wife Reveals Her Husband’s Bigamy
If you’re going to commit bigamy, it’s probably not a good idea to have pictures of your bigamous wedding up on Facebook. Of course, if your second wife doesn’t know you’re already married, that may happen.