Hulu’s attempt to dismiss a consolidated class action complaint alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) failed when federal Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler denied their motion on Friday. The lawsuit (previous coverage) is one of a few that were filed over the use of re-spawning cookies (“supercookies”). In this case, the plaintiffs allege…
Category: Breaches
Google Fined for Illegal Collection of Personal Information in Norway
The Norwegian Data Inspectorate (Datatilsynet) has given Google a fine of 250,000 NOK (that’s U.S. $42,262 – Dissent) for having illegally collected personal information about Norwegian citizens. In 2010, Datatilsynet found that Google had collected data related to Street View service. At the same time, the company acquired personal information, passwords and e-mails from unsecured…
Photobucket leaves users exposed
Julia Grenberg reports: Nude, explicit, and R-rated images uploaded on the social media site were in some cases made available to view on public web forums dedicated to exploiting Photobucket’s privacy settings. The breach of privacy “is a very rare occurrence that has affected only a small number of Photobucket’s users,” said Photobucket spokesman David…
Disclosing (unnecessary) personal info on parking ticket violates DPPA – Court
In September 2010, I blogged about a case in Palatine, Illinois after Jason Senne sued the village for the amount of personal information it needlessly exposed in a parking ticket left on his windshield. Some of the original court filings were linked from that blog entry. In August 2011, the district court ruled that the practice did not violate…