GE Money who manage credit card operations for JCPenny and other retailers, claim that they lost a backup tape containing 650000 customers private data. Backup tapes were being held at a large backup tape storage company Iron Mountain, who were not available to comment on the issue. It would be interesting to find out how …
Although personal privacy is very important in current technology age, most countries seem to be loosing control over it. One such example is U.S. government monitoring without warrants international phone calls and e-mails involving people suspected of having terrorist links.
Hackers have posted on the internet MediaDefender Inc emails sent between the company employees.  The emails contain information on how they conduct business, by trapping unsuspecting video posters and then providing that info to media companies so that appropriate action can be taken against them.  Some emails also contained passwords on how to log onto their website for administering it. My rant…..what will …
TD Ameritrade follows www.monster.com ‘s footsteps. About 6.3 million customer records were hacked, although TD Ameritrade states that the records did not contain social security numbers and account numbers. No other details around the incident were disclosed. As a result of this customer have started receiving phishing emails, which could lead to identity theft. In …
The new Google Maps feature “Street View” could violate Canadian Privacy Laws, which state that “businesses first obtain consent from individuals before disclosing it”. The street level views also include individuals’ pictures making them identifiable. These pictures were taken without individuals consent. This feature is available for 9 major US cities, and the plans are …
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