E Sports entertainment Association suffers data breach which results in publication of personal information when it refuses extortion demand

January 9, 2017

Sometimes a data breach is just the beginning of a company’s problems.  As reported in ESEA hacked, 1.5 million records leaked after alleged failed extortion attempt the theft of personal information can be used to make extortion demands.  As E Sports Entertainment Association discovered correctly Read the rest of this entry »

Doctor fined for filming men in the shower but scope for civil action limited

January 7, 2017

State governments have been enthusiastic about criminalising surreptitious photography of a sexual nature, in response to the questionable practice of upskirting (taking photographs from shoes or ground level of women’s’ underwear) and revenge porn, the posting on-line of naked or intimate photographs by a spurned ex partner. The use of this legislation is reported on in Doctor fined for filming men in shower, where the accused engaged in utterly appalling behaviour in filming men showering in public bathrooms in Brisbane.  The article provides:
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National Institute of Standards and Technology releases a report on privacy engineering and risk management for US Government. Relevant principles in Australia

The National Institute of Standards and Technology  (“the NIST”) provides a valuable resource Read the rest of this entry »