Christopher Wolf writes: Two recent federal cases alleging privacy violations in the mobile context have been allowed to proceed based on novel damages allegations. While neither cases recognized a property interest in personal information per se, the courts allowed cases involving mobile devices and alleged privacy violations to proceed, finding allegations sufficient that (a) the plaintiffs paid more for their…
Category: Breaches
Embarrassing Facebook status updates exposed
Lucy Meyer reports: A new website created by a British teenager highlights the dangers of revealing private information on social networking services. We Know What You’re Doing exposes the compromising status updates of Facebook and Foursquare users who haven’t set their accounts to private. “I’m getting so mad right now I hate my boss Jay…
MN: Boys gave girl $5, soda to be locker room spy
Last month I noted a situation in a middle school in Minnesota where numerous students had been suspended, and I wondered why it required police involvement. Today, Meena Hart Duerson provides additional details in the Daily News: Earlier this year, students at Century Middle School in Lakeville began taking photos of girls’ behinds in the…
Apple Must Face Privacy Class Action, Judge Rules
Chris Marshall reports: Apple may be liable for sending unauthorized iPhone user information to the third parties behind applications, but the application developers are in the clear, a federal judge ruled. The plaintiffs in the consolidated class action have sufficiently showed that Apple was responsible for transmitting the personal information of iPhone, iPad and iPod…