You can’t buy this kind of publicity. The New York Times has a big article on Edelson, PC – a law firm that is prolific in filing privacy class action lawsuits.
Category: Breaches
UK: Your privacy for sale: From plastic surgery to eating disorders, medical secrets sold to the cold call sharks
Katherine Faulkner, Paul Bentley, and Lucy Osborne continue the Daily Mail‘s reporting on the sale of personal information in the UK: A firm linked to the sale of NHS patient data is offering details of eating disorder sufferers for just 12p a head, the Mail can reveal today. It has also offered to supply names…
Kevin Bollaert Sentenced to 18 Years Over Revenge Porn Site “You Got Posted”
Adam Steinbaugh writes: Kevin Bollaert was sentenced by a San Diego court to 18 years in prison following his February conviction on twenty-seven counts of extortion and identity theft. Bollaert was the chief operator of YouGotPosted.com (later uGotPosted.com), which published the nude photos of over ten thousand men and women, almost uniformly without their permission. Bollaert, with…
Suit: Facebook facial recognition technology violates Illinois privacy laws
Tony Briscoe reports: A Cook County man is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media giant has violated Illinois privacy laws with facial recognition software that “secretly amassed the world’s largest privately held database of consumer biometrics data.” Carlo Licata claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court that Facebook has violated…