Quick note: Kashmir Hills of Forbes has a piece on Jill Kelley’s lawsuit against the FBI with a copy of the complaint, here. It seems Kelley trusted the FBI to only look at the emails she approved them looking at when she gave them the login credentials to her email account. The complaint alleges that…
Category: Breaches
Woman at center of Petraeus scandal, Jill Kelley sues government over breach of privacy
Pete Williams and Andrew Rafferty report: Lawyers for Jill Kelley — the Florida woman whose complaint to federal authorities about harassing emails last year led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus — on Monday filed a lawsuit claiming the FBI and Department of Defense officials violated her privacy by failing to keep…
Court Grants Final Approval to Class Action Settlement Over AOL’s 2006 Anonymization Failure
Paul Bond and Frederick Lah write: After nearly seven years of litigation, two class actions, and millions of dollars in legal and settlement fees, AOL hopes that it can finally put its infamous anonymization failure incident behind it. On May 24, 2013, a Virginia federal judge gave final approval to a class action settlement between AOL and a class…
NYC residents sue photographer over telephoto shots of them in their apartments
Last week, I noted that a photography exhibit in New York was raising concerns about privacy, as the photographer, Arne Svenson, had taken pictures of his neighbors in their apartments across the street without their knowledge or consent. Now there’s a lawsuit over the matter. Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News reports: Martha and Matthew Foster…