The annual Court Leadership and Academy Conference recently concluded three days of meetings and presentations in Anaheim, California. The event was hosted by the National Association For Presiding Judges and Court Executive Officers (NAPCO).
You knew it was coming before it happened.
Days after the FBI executed a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, the judge that approved that warrant began receiving death threats.
Just months after Supreme Court justices found themselves in a similar situation, someone posted the judge’s home address on websites and posted anti-Semitic slurs that resulted in his synagogue canceling Friday night services as a precaution.
Many clinical social workers and therapists have found themselves and their reputations under assault by a scam perpetrated by a company called CareDash.
The company claims to be a directory of healthcare providers, but all it does is collect information about thousands of Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), to market their services without their consent. But when someone inquires about one of these professionals, they are told that person no longer accepts new patients, and are then directed to a virtual therapy site called BetterHelp.
The more places that have your home address, the more likely that address will end up in a database that gets shared, purchased, or hacked. A post office box can help limit that exposure – but unfortunately, even here your identity and location are not as secure as they seem.
Many clinical social workers and therapists have found themselves caught up in a scam perpetrated by a company called CareDash.
The IronWall360 team from 360Civic recently returned from the annual National Association for Court Management (NACM) conference in Milwaukee.
NACM is the world's largest organization of court management professionals with members from all levels and courts. It was an excellent opportunity to connect with court management and judges about our privacy protection service, and how we can keep these public servants and their families safe by removing their private information online.
We are pleased to announce that our company will offer 90 days of free online privacy protection for anyone impacted by the recent accidental disclosure of private information by the California Department of Justice (DOJ).
This breach revealed the personal information of individuals who were granted or denied a concealed and carry weapons (CCW) permit between 2011-2021. The information exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, race, driver’s license numbers, and criminal histories.
The sole function of our IronWall360 privacy protection service is to protect you and your family, by making sure your private information is removed from the internet. This makes it understandably awkward when, as judges and police departments sign up for our service, the first thing we need to collect from them is…their private information.
COVID forced many school-age children into virtual learning situations, made possible by educational apps and websites provided by their schools. Now, it turns out those services collected personal data, tracked those students' online behaviors, and sold that data to third-party companies.
Should they have been allowed to do so? No. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a US law, provides broad privacy protections for student educational records and protect them from invasive online tracking.
Clients often ask how their addresses and phone numbers become so readily available online. We tell them that process often starts when they give our information to a site that violates their trust. That is why we always recommend limiting the amount of information you give to anyone, off- or online.
How does it happen? Look no further than the recent legal settlement between Twitter and the US government; Twitter agreed to pay a $150 million fine for illegally using peoples' personal data over six years to help sell targeted advertisements.