Julien Hick, Jacqueline van Essen and Vincent Wellens of NautaDutilh write: Belgium recently experienced two significant data breaches (involving, amongst other companies, the Belgian railway operator), which resulted in the online disclosure of personal data relating to thousands of people. These events led the Belgian data protection authority (the Privacy Commission) to issue a recommendation on the security…
Category: Breaches
Suit: 185K spyware images sent from rental computers (Updated)
The FTC may have settled charges against Aaron’s over the use of DesignerWare LLC software, but the consumers haven’t. Crystal and Brian Byrd are still pursuing a lawsuit against Aaron’s and now there’s another lawsuit filed on behalf of another consumer by the same attorneys. As Associated Press reports: Spyware installed on computers leased from…
Appeals judges will allow $9.5M Facebook privacy settlement
Joe Mullin writes: Internet privacy lawsuits, especially of the class-action variety, have been sprouting up everywhere in the past few years. Some of them have been settled for considerable sums, especially when companies are sued over publicly acknowledged privacy screw-ups that they’ve already taken heat for. One of the most notable was the $9.5 million Facebook settlement over its Beacon…
Consumer Watchdog Calls On Federal Trade Commission To Act Against Google’s App Store Privacy Violations; Says Penalties Should Be In Billions of Dollars
Consumer Watchdog is calling on the FTC to take action against Google for allegedly sharing users’ information with apps developer. And they want hefty fines. The group also asked California Attorney General Kamala Harris to investigate whether Google’s actions also violate California law. In a seven-page formal letter of complaint to Charles A. Harwood, the…