Topic: Information Privacy
pA bear ate my phone. Utterly ridiculous. Or is it? For those of you who may not know of this reference, there was recently a story out on the internet about a person distracting a bear by throwing a cell phone at it in order to make a quick escape. I know of ...
Identity theft is as big a problem now as it has ever been. The reason is partly because of improvements in the technology used by fraudsters, but is more so due to the fact that we freely give out our personal details to so many people and businesses. Whether it be signing up for a store card, transferring money between ...
University Medical Center officials said Monday that personal information of traffic accident victims was likely leaked from its trauma center for more than three months, and stopped only after the Las Vegas Sun told the hospital about the breach. The hospitals statement was the first acknowledgment that the leak of patient ...
A South Korean Internet auction site was not to blame for the leakage of personal information on millions of users after hackers breached its system, a court ruled Thursday. Internet Auction, a subsidiary of US firm eBay, was hacked in February 2008, leading to the theft of private information on more than 10 million users, including web IDs, home addresses ...
