Andrea Peterson reports: In the four years that it grew from a start-up to a company valued at $18 billion, car hailing service Uber’s aggressive tactics have made the company a lot of enemies — local regulators, taxi drivers and some journalists among them. But no legal battle or protest caused the company as many public…
Category: Breaches
Jacksonville company settles in $40 million class action lawsuit
Jensen Werley reports: Interline Brands, a Jacksonville-based office supply and cleaning company, has agreed to settle in a $40 million lawsuit for sending ads via fax, a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Junk Fax Prevention Act. The lawsuit, filed in May 2011, was a class action suit that began with a…
PA: Easton School Board Members Asked To Resign Following Snooping Scandal
Syma Chowdhry reports: Three school board members have been asked to resign after a school employee was charged with spying. At a press conference held Monday night, school board members said they will not resign. “Disconnect, lack of trust, paranoia.” That’s how the Northampton County DA describes the relationship between the Easton Area School District…
CNN Wants Video Privacy Case Thrown Out
Wendy Davis reports: CNN is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the company’s iPhone app violates a federal privacy law by sending information about users’ devices to the analytics company Bango. The company argues in papers filed on Friday that any information transmitted to Bango is “anonymous” and doesn’t personally identify…