Companies May Be Liable for Accessing Recycled Cellphones - Steele v. RadioShack

It always impresses me that when personal data is accessed the guilty party always tries to prove it was in the public interest. If you read your sisyter's diary, doesn't matter what you found, it was wrong in itself - malum in se. The issue at law here is can defendant claim common law intrusion into seclusion? Can the parties prove the elements necessary for judgement in their favor? The basic facts are that Steele bought a new phone at RadioShack, after which a RadioShack employee transferred the data from Steele’s old phone to his new one. Steele also left his old phone at RadioShack for recycling. After Steele left, RadioShack accessed his old phone and viewed personal information, including photographs which Steele took at his worksite. RadioShack forwarded these photos to Steele’s employer. As a result, Steele was fired. [Read more]

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Airplanes filled with billions of US dollars disappear in Iraq

Some $6.6bn (£4bn) flown into Iraq eight years ago may have been stolen, according to a US official investigating fraud in the country.

The missing money may represent "the largest theft of funds in national history", investigator Stuart Bowen told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.


Source: BBC World News