If you care about privacy, and you’re not worried about security, then you’re like a baby turtle, just hatched, hurtling your way to the sea, oblivious to the seagull that’s about to extinguish your young life. — Peter Fleischer
Category: Breaches
Judge awards class action status in privacy lawsuit vs. comScore
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet’s largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords and other personal data collected from consumer systems. The court’s decision paves the way for what…
Android apps found to have breached user privacy: study
Hamish Barwick reports: Android phone users have been warned to check app permissions after it was found that some popular apps upload mobile numbers to third-party entities without notification. According to a new study by Bitdefender, 12.87 per cent of 130,000 free Android apps sent user phone numbers to third-party servers. The researchers found that…
Hulk’s Sex Tape Fight Returns to State Court
Joseph O’Connell reports that Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against a woman who secretly recorded a sex tape and Gawker, who published it, continues: Hulk Hogan can face off in state court against Gawker and the woman who allegedly secretly recorded and released their sex tape, a federal judge ruled. Gawker had hoped to preserve federal jurisdiction…