Christin McMeley, John D. Seiver and Bryan Thompson of David Wright Tremaine write: Last week the Third and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals assigned case numbers to the appeals of In re Nickelodeon Privacy Litigation and Locklear v. Dow Jones & Co., Inc., two recently dismissed class actions in which plaintiffs alleged violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”)….
Category: Breaches
Andreas Lubitz and doctors’ “duty to warn”
I wish the talking heads on TV commenting on doctors’ “duty to warn” would shut up if they don’t know what they’re talking about. Of course, they generally don’t realize that the information they’re giving out is legally incorrect. And so I listened to a talking head firmly assert that Lubitz’s doctor had a duty…
Google loses court battle on web snooping, opening doors to privacy law suits
Oscar Williams-Grut reports: Google could face a wave of privacy lawsuits in the UK after three people won the right to sue the search giant for snooping on their web browsing. The search giant had sought to block attempts by three Brits to sue the company over the monitoring of their web browsing without consent….
Fitness Trackers without Display Vulnerable to Security Breach: Research
Anirban Roy reports: … Senior Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, Roman Unuchek, has examined how a number of fitness wristbands interact with a smartphone, and discovered some surprising results. According to his research, the authentication method in several popular fitness wearables allows a third party app to connect invisibly to the device, execute commands, and, in…