See if you can find an example of a privacy breach that was reported in the Australian or international news in the last 6 months. What were the consequences? i.e. legal, political, financial, personal etc. What action was taken in response to the privacy breach?
Sony faced legal action across the globe after hacker where able to steal names, addresses and credit card details of users of playstation. Sony did not tell users about the theft until 6 days after the fact. This incident affect around 77 million users.
The legal issues with this is that countries will put in place tougher laws to be put into place over the protection of pesonal information and also the information that companies can ask for and hole. Financially Sony's stock price has dropped by 10% due to consumer trust.
Countries like Australia and America have allowed Sony to Re-access the PlayStation Network users details. Where as Japan has banned the network until sony can prove it has put measures in place to protect cilents information.
*irish news
