And here’s another Nope-You-Don’t-Have-Standing ruling. Matthew Verdin of Covington and Burling writes: Many businesses use customer support software that may include call recording features to help ensure a better customer service experience. A California federal court dismissed a wiretapping lawsuit filed against a software company offering this software tool (TalkDesk), holding that TalkDesk’s alleged recording…
Category: Court
Privacy ‘Testers’ Don’t Have Standing to Sue, Court Rules
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: If you are a “tester” who actively seeks out privacy violations and files lawsuits to ensure legal compliance (as many class action lawsuit plaintiffs are), you do NOT have Article III standing to sue, according to a recent ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California….
UK’s attempt to keep details of Apple ‘backdoor’ case secret… denied
Connor Jones reports: Details of Apple’s appeal against the UK’s so-called “backdoor order” will now play out in public after the Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds. The confirmation comes after the Investigatory Powers Tribunal held a closed-door hearing on March 14, which was presumed to be…
Trump ordered to pay legal bill of UK firm he sued over Russia dossier
The Associated Press reports that a British judge has ordered President Trump to pay more than 625,000 pounds ($820,000) in legal costs to Orbis Business Intelligence, the company he unsuccessfully sued over a dossier alleging he took part in sex acts in Russia. Orbis was founded by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who…