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FBI Apologizes to Post, Times - Via The Washington Post : FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III apologized to two newspaper editors yesterday for what he said was a recently uncovered breach of their reporters' phone records in the course of a national security investigation nearly four years ago.

Threat Level reports on the Facebook privacy class action spawned by its Beacon feature from a while back (the complaint is linked in the Threat Level post). This lawsuit raises a slew of interesting issues - a ton of fodder for the tech law geek. All of the statutes involved are technical.

Thanks to Digitial Rights Ireland for pointing me in the direction of today’s Irish Time’s editorial calling for the introduction of Data Breach Disclosure laws.  It is good to see this issue get such a public platform and raise the awareness as to why I and Digital Rights Ireland have been calling for such laws to be introduced.

Also, you can sign the petition at http://www.handsoffmylaptop.org

Following on from last week’s announcement that the office of the Comptroller Auditor General lost a laptop containing sensitive data at a bus stop, today the CAG announced that it lost a laptop in April 2007that contained information from the Department of Social and Family Affairs on over 380,000

We reported on this case back in September 2007, the largest US data breach in history so far (45 million customer records!). It seems like finally the people behind it have been busted, 11 people have been charged by US authorities.

EFF - minilinks for 2008-08-06 August 11, 2008 - 10:49am — MacRonin minilinks for 2008-08-06 - Via EFF.org Updates: DHS Issues Policy on Laptop SeizuresRules released by Homeland Security say agents can seize laptops and their contents without suspicion of wrongdoing.

French Reporters at Black Hat Hacked Fellow Reporters - Via Threat Level: LAS VEGAS -- Reporters covering the Black Hat Security Conference this week were apparently hacked by three French reporters.

Ubisoft is suing Optical Experts Manufacturing for $10 Million for compromising Assassin's Creed during the disk reproduction process, according to Brendan Sinclair at Gamespot. The disk was compromised by a company employee who posted it onto the Internet 6 weeks prior to its official release.

Ubisoft is suing Optical Experts Manufacturing for $10 Million for compromising Assassin's Creed during the disk reproduction process, according to Brendan Sinclair at Gamespot. The disk was compromised by a company employee who posted it onto the Internet 6 weeks prior to its official release.