Technology is great. Until it isn’t. Ashley Belanger reports: In January, Colorado police officers confined a 77-year-old grandmother named Ruby Johnson for hours in a squad car without even offering a glass of water during a time when she was due to take her daily medications—why? Nobody told Johnson what was going on when she…
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SuperCare call recording $750K class action settlement
Most of the class action lawsuit settlements I post involve data security breaches, but this one involves informed consent. Top Class Actions reports that SuperCare has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve claims it illegally recorded consumer calls without consent. The settlement benefits consumers who had at least one phone call recorded without their consent…
911 dispatchers say skiers are accidentally setting off Apple’s new crash-detection technology without realizing, triggering emergency calls
Brittney Nguyen reports: Emergency dispatchers in a county in Utah told a local news outlet that they’re seeing a rise in accidental 911 calls from skiers who have new Apple products with its crash-detection technology. Suzie Butterfield, a Summit County Dispatch Center supervisor, told KSL.com that dispatchers have been getting phone calls alerting them to “a severe…
NZ: Case note 232044: Disclosure of information likely to cause significant likelihood of serious harassment
Another case note from the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office: A woman made a request to a health agency for the access logs of her records. She said she was worried about people looking at her file who shouldn’t be doing so (employee browsing). The agency released the access log to the woman with the…