Michael Crider reports: Web users are becoming more and more aware of their privacy—or their lack thereof—on the modern internet. Search engine DuckDuckGo has always catered to those concerns, and doubled down on them with a dedicated Webkit-based browser for the Mac earlier this year. Now the company is completing its hat trick with a…
Category: Breaches
Jury Awards $31M Total in Favor of Vanessa Bryant and Chris Chester in Lawsuit Against LA County Over Fatal Helicopter Crash Photos
Meghann Cuniff reports: A jury on Wednesday awarded a total of $31 million to Vanessa Bryant and Christopher Chester for Los Angeles County’s mishandling of photos from the helicopter crash that killed their spouses. The verdict follows 10 days of testimony in U.S. District Judge John F. Walter‘s courtroom about how employees with the sheriff’s and fire departments took and…
Cleveland State student wins federal lawsuit against university on breach of Fourth Amendment
Alec Sapolin reports: A U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled in the favor of a student from Cleveland State University on Aug. 22 after the school used the student’s webcam to search his room before a class test. The ruling appears to be the first in the nation to state the…
UK: What can you do when a child’s private information has been misused?
Daniel Shaw, Meera Khunti, and Anna Seal write: Everyone has a reasonable expectation of privacy concerning their private information, whether they are an adult or a child. However, there are certain cases when a child has a reasonable expectation of privacy where an adult does not. Whilst not as widely reported as other privacy claims,…