April 10, 2016
Revenge porn has, until recently, followed an invariable fact situation; female partner breaks up with male partner and the male ex uploads intimate photographs/video of the female ex onto one of the many potential platforms on the internet, including Read the rest of this entry »
April 7, 2016
The new E health records system is attracting considerable attention…of the unwanted kind as the model switches from an opt in to an opt out system. The latest development is the poor data security in the Read the rest of this entry »
March 31, 2016
Here is a case that can be served up to the Privacy Commissioner without the need for garnish. The Age reports in More than a million Menulog customers’ private data at risk of theft that someone logging into the Menulog website can access and view names and email addresses of 1.1 customers when the permitted access was only to the customers of that person (or the company). The defensive and inadequate response of Menulog when this problem was brought to its attention highlights Read the rest of this entry »
The BBC reports in Sex worker caught by ‘drone vigilante’ pleads guilty that in Oklahoma a citizen used his drone to film an act of prostitution, in a parked vehicle, which resulted in the successful prosecution of hte prostitute. Given the development of the technology it is hardly surprising that it could be put to this use. The privacy issues are Read the rest of this entry »
March 30, 2016
Apps are notorious for being a weak links in an organisations cyber security structure. Commonly there is no privacy by design incorporated into an app. The emphasis is Read the rest of this entry »
March 28, 2016
Protection of personal information by health organisations and health services is, counter intuitively, quite dreadful.
In Australia the e health records system is governed by the My Health Records Act 2012. The Government earlier this month Read the rest of this entry »
March 23, 2016
The South Australian Law Reform Institute has produced it Final Report calling for, amongst its 34 recommendations, a statutory right of privacy. The 195 page report is found here.
This is yet another Read the rest of this entry »
The Hulk Hogan case stands at a judgement of $115 million with punitive damages of $25 million from Gawker for publishing a video of Hogan having sex with his friends wife in 2006. An appeal is Read the rest of this entry »
March 20, 2016
It began most spectacularly with geeks at Wired hacked into a Jeep Cherokee and stopped it cold on a highway. It is reported amusingly with Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It. That sparked a flurry of stories on the internet of things and data security including by Forbes at Five Lessons On The ‘Security Of Things’ From The Jeep Cherokee Hack and Bloomberg with Hacked Jeep Cherokee Exposes Weak Underbelly of High-Tech Cars. The experiment was also covered on youtube here. Breaching ineffective cyber security defences and accessing appliances and equipment pre dated this experiment. And some potential hacks and breaches are far more serious, such as individuals with heart pacemakers which have been reported as being accessible as far back as 2012 and in Science in Could a wireless pacemaker let hackers take control of your heart? Read the rest of this entry »
Privacy protection and regulation in the United States is regarded as being uniformly weak. That is not correct. A better description is that it is sectoral, strong in some areas, such as health, and extremely weak in others, such as with customer lists. In the regulatory zone it is similarly a mixed report. The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) has been very active in taking action for privacy breaches, involving a claim of misleading and deceptive conduct. Most recently the Federal Communications Commission is going to issue stringent, for the US at least, privacy protections which require strong privacy regulations on internet. Read the rest of this entry »