Wendy Davis reports: Amazon has settled a lawsuit alleging that it circumvented the privacy settings of Internet Explorer users, according to court papers filed on Thursday. Details of the settlement, including any financial terms, have not been made public. The deal puts an end to a case originally filed by Nicole Del Vecchio and Ariana Del Vecchio…
Category: Breaches
Google privacy settlement with FTC seems headed for court approval
Brandon Bailey reports: A federal judge said Friday that she’s inclined to approve a legal settlement in which Google (GOOG) agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve federal allegations of privacy violations, despite objections from a consumer group that argues the penalty is too weak. The Federal Trade Commission had touted the penalty, negotiated last summer, as…
Iowa City Landlord Faces New Privacy Invasion Charges
Vanessa Miller reports: A 63-year-old Iowa City landlord was arrested Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of three counts of invasion of privacy less than a week after he was arrested on suspicion of peeping in on a female tenant while she showered. The new charges come in addition to a single count of invasion of privacy…
Skype hands 16-year-old’s personal information to IT company
From nu.nl: Skype illegally distributed a user’s personal information to a private company during a police investigation into Anonymous-sanctioned cyberattacks on PayPal. It and several other payment companies were attacked out of retribution for blocking donations to Wikileaks in 2011. Skype handed over the personal information of a 16-year-old to an IT firm, which later…