Larry Page of Davis LLP discusses a case in which an employee was fired for cause for snooping/improper accessing of a file: In a recent decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Court upheld the termination for cause of a help desk analyst in the IT department who had been employed for over 20…
Category: Breaches
Privacy class actions: Current trends and new frontiers in 2013
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…
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…