Law360 reports: A New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday that government contractor Magellan Health Services Inc. didn’t violate the federal Right to Privacy Act when it informed the Federal Aviation Administration about an FAA employee’s alleged drinking problems, saying the act applies only to federal agencies. Read more about the opinion in Repetto v. Magellan Health Services on…
Category: Breaches
Court approves $9M privacy settlement in Netflix case
Johnny Bonner of Courthouse News reports that the $9M settlement of the class action lawsuit against Netflix, discussed previously on this blog, has been approved.
Facebook plugs Timeline privacy hole
Lisa Vaas writes: Europe v. Facebook, an Austrian student organization that keeps tabs on Facebook’s privacy transgressions, recently discovered that Facebook’s latest timeline redesign allowed friends of friends to see the total number of Events a user has attended, even if that person’s privacy settings were set to only allow friends to see such events. This screw-up allowed for…
Social Security Administration Considers Stronger Privacy Safeguards for SSNs of Children
From EPIC: The Social Security Administration seeks public comment on a proposal to assign new Social Security numbers to children age 13 and under. Currently, the agency may assign new SSNs only if it has evidence that “a third party has improperly used an adult’s or child’s SSN, the number holder was not at fault, and the…