Angus Thompson reports: An abusive mother who was the “face” of a foster care agency has won a payout after the child welfare authority disclosed details of her history to her employer. The Department of Family and Community Services must compensate the woman $4539 after she was fired from her [Read More…]
Nicholas Iovino reports: A class of up to 6 million Illinois residents can seek billions of dollars in damages from Facebook on claims that it harvested users’ facial data without consent, a federal judge ruled Monday. Rejecting arguments that the location of Facebook’s servers shields it from liability, U.S. District [Read More…]
Update: this story seems to have been removed from ThreatPost after it was posted. Related to apps sharing personal information, Tom Spring reports: Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do [Read More…]
Christopher Udemans reports: In a case worth over RMB 800 million, numerous members of a syndicate have been arrested for allegedly buying and selling personal data over the internet, local media is reporting. The gang was able to obtain personal information by falsely identifying themselves and hacking targeted individuals. This [Read More…]