David F. McDowell, D. Reed Freeman Jr., and Jacob M. Harper, Morrison & Foerster LLP write: While we have seen a new wave of privacy class actions, the issues facing the federal courts are the same: how to reconcile an inarticulable discomfort with data methods asserted in privacy class actions with their constitutional mandate to…
Category: Breaches
Virginia State Trooper arrested for computer invasion of privacy charges
Doris Taylor reports: Crystal G. Ramsey, a 31-year-old Virginia State Trooper, was arrested on June 19th for computer invasion of privacy charges. Police say they received a tip about Ramsey’s alleged use of the Virginia Criminal Information Network and an investigation was launched. She was indicted on June 17th by a Virginia Beach Grand Jury…
Norton: Android app skips consent, gives Facebook servers user phone numbers
Violet Blue reported: Yesterday Norton updated its post about its findings in Facebook’s official Android app, wherein Facebook confirmed that its app has sent millions of Android users’ phone numbers to be stored on Facebook’s servers when the app is launched. The app’s action of launch/send does not require users to log in, so user…
Facebook breach affected more than Facebook acknowledged – researchers
Jam Kotenko reports: When Facebook came clean about a recent security bug that caused the exposure of 6 million users’ personal information to their contacts, they softened the blow by saying that the effect of the bug was probably minimal, since the people who likely received their friends’ data could have already had access to the contact…