Three Google executives were handed suspended six month prison sentences by a Milan court on Wednesday for privacy law violations relating to a video posted on Google Video showing the bullying of a handicapped boy, …

A US State Department file clerk on Thursday was sentenced to 12 months’ probation for illegally accessing dozens of confidential passport applications of movie actors, professional athletes and other celebrities.
The employee, Susan Holloman, 58, was …

Fomer UCLA Healthcare System researcher Huping Zhou has pleaded guilty to violating parts of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and could be one of the first people in the country convicted under the …

Four Florida men have been charged with running a multistate identity theft operation out of a suburban Philadelphia motel room.
Bensalem police say they recovered documents — including licenses and credit cards — listing the names …

On December 31, 2009, the Transportation Security Administration backed off on an ill-considered administrative subpoena it issued to trasportation industry blogger, Christopher Elliott. EFF assisted Mr. Elliott in responding to the subpoena.
The subpoena was hand-delivered …

The hacker who enabled the theft of millions of credit card numbers has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and will receive a prison term of at least 17 years.
Albert Gonzalez, the hacker, has …

[O]f the 36 million card numbers obtained from TJX, at least 25 million — approximately 70% — were expired, PSR ¶35, and therefor unusable.
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[D]efendants obtained account information for 5,132 cards through the Dave …

CLEVELAND — A northeast Ohio man faces prison time after he used legal software to spy on an unknowing woman’s computer activities, accidentally retrieving confidential information from the computer system at the children’s hospital where …

An alleged swindler involved in a sophisticated identity-theft ring involving personal information copied from hospital records is facing multiple identity theft and theft charges, police said.
The defendant allegedly purchased almost $40,000 worth of merchandise with …

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities violated the constitutional and privacy rights of suspected illegal immigrants when they used tax returns to try and build hundreds of identity theft cases against …