Katy Griffin reports: A Fordingbridge man says he was “stunned” and “very upset” after discovering by chance that his medical records had been accessed and details shared without his consent. The data breach took place in 2016 but Robert Richardson found out about it more than two years later after [Read More…]
Chris Burt reports: Perceptics, the automated license plate reader company that suffered a massive breach of data it had collected under contract to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has agreed to new security controls and will be allowed to continue working with the agency, The Washington Post reports. At the time [Read More…]
Olga Cronin reports: A senior garda who directed a team which harvested 3,500 hours worth of CCTV from premises across Dublin for an investigation into a murder plot has told a court he did not consider the Data Protection Act nor the data protection of members of the public. Detective [Read More…]
Andrew Blake reports: Spain’s National Court announced an investigation Wednesday into a security firm accused of spying on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The court, one of the country’s highest, confirmed it is considering whether the Spanish-based security firm, Undercover Global S.L, and its manager, [Read More…]