Michael Hatamoto reports: Auction house eBay has banned the sale of smartphones from Chinese manufacturer Star, as the company’s N9500 cheap Google Android-powered device ships with the Usupay.D Trojan malware pre-installed. The device tracks phone user activity and cybercriminals can remotely control and manipulate the phone, if necessary. Read more on TweakTown.
Category: Breaches
Canada: Stolen Customer Data Results In Ontario’s First Certified Privacy Class Action
Michael J. Paris of Bennett Jones LLP writes: Businesses that collect personal information have an added incentive to monitor employees handling customer data – Ontario’s first class action arising from the new tort of “intrusion upon seclusion” was certified last week.1 In Evans v Bank of Nova Scotia, the plaintiffs sought to certify a class action…
Hulu Users Can’t Bring Privacy Class-Action
Wendy Davis reports: In a significant win for Hulu, a federal judge ruled today that a group of consumers who are suing the company for alleged privacy violations can’t proceed as a class. The consumers say the online video company violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by allegedly disclosing the names of the programs they…
Convert to Christianity sues church, claiming it broke confidentiality promise and thus exposed him to attack for apostasy in Syria
Eugene Volokh has more on a case I noted a few days ago where a Christian convert from Islam sued his church for posting notice of his baptism, claiming it put his life in danger when he returned to Syria: The plaintiff in Doe v. First Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Okla. Dist. Ct. filed June 9, 2014), who was born…