Google 'Breach' Gives California Community College a Cyberspace Lesson
Dorothy Korber and Eric Stern write in The Sacramento Bee:
A database containing sensitive information belonging to about 2,000 Los Rios community college students - such as grades and Social Security numbers - was inadvertently uploaded by Google last fall - a breach discovered last month by a student "Googling" himself.More here.
The file has since been removed from the Internet, and Los Rios sent letters to students alerting them of the breach. But the incident shows how Internet search engines are aggressively digging into every nook and cranny of cyberspace. Computer security experts say lessons about privacy can be learned from those operating Web sites and those searching them.
posted by Fergie @ 3/06/2007 09:14:00 PM
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