Kashmir Hill writes: “I can see all of the devices in your home and I think I can control them,” I said to Thomas Hatley, a complete stranger in Oregon who I had rudely awoken with an early phone call on a Thursday morning. He and his wife were still in bed. Expressing surprise, he…
Category: Breaches
Editor of French magazine that published topless photos of Duchess of Cambridge charged over breach of country’s strict privacy laws
Peter Allen reports: A high-profile female journalist has been placed under formal criminal investigation in connection with topless pictures taken of the Duchess of Cambridge, it emerged last night. Laurence Pieau, the editor of French Closer magazine, was formally charged in connection with an alleged breach of France’s strict privacy laws. She now faces the…
Class Claims Dating Sites Disclose HIV Statuses
William Dotinga reports: Dating website conglomerate SuccessfulMatch.com posts its customers’ HIV and STD statuses on thousands of its other websites, in violation of law and its own promises of confidentiality, a class action claims in Federal Court. […] “On the home page of PositiveSingles.com, defendant lured them in with empathetic sounding statements like ‘You feel…
Google Settles Vanity-Searcher’s Class-Action Lawsuit For $8.5 Million
Wendy Davis reports: Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it leaked the names of search users via referrer headers, according to court papers filed on Friday in San Jose, Calif. The settlement agreement calls for Google to donate $8.5 million to four schools and nonprofit organizations — Harvard Law’s Berkman Center…