What do you mean by e-mail being “in electronic storage” and what do you mean by “for backup protection?” Will SCOTUS agree to hear a case on the Stored Communications Act? Back in 2010, I noted a ruling by the South Carolina Court of Appeals in Jennings v. Jennings,. In that case, Holly Broome, Gail…
Category: Breaches
Minn. driver’s license data snoopers are difficult to track
Eric Roper of The Star Tribune has been all over the problems with rampant misuse of the Minnesota driver’s license database. In another report yesterday, he focused on the difficulties of finding out who is accessing citizen’s files: The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, which oversees the driver’s license database, refuses to tell people the…
Lawsuit by Florida state trooper raises serious concerns about protection of state’s database of driver’s license info
I’ve recently posted a few lawsuits out of Minnesota concerning improper access to the state’s driver’s license database. One of them involved a police officer whose colleagues improperly accessed her records on numerous occasions. Now there’s also a case in Florida, where law enforcement personnel improperly accessed a fellow officer’s records – but not just…
Privacy Class Actions: Year-in-Review
Erica Gann Kitaev of BakerHostetler has a recap of some privacy lawsuits in 2012: During 2012, privacy class actions continued to trend toward two major categories: 1) actions that arose out of a data breach event and 2) actions brought to prosecute an alleged consumer privacy right. Read her recap here.