A regular reader pointed me to a small item on Courthouse News yesterday that reported a potential class action lawsuit against Jon Davler Inc. and its officer, Christina Yang. I almost wish he hadn’t, because I obtained the complaint, and the allegations are … well… frankly, yucky to the nth degree. Roxanna G Sevilla is…
Category: Breaches
Macau investigates Sands’ transfer of personal data to US
Macau authority is investigating whether Sands violated personal data laws after the casino operator’s lawyer admitted they transferred the employee records of the former CEO Steve Jacobs to the US for a longstanding court case that promised to leak controversial details continuously. Yesterday the Portuguese paper Tribuna de Macau reported that Macau’s Office for Personal…
On email privacy, Twitter’s ToS and owning your own platform
Alex Howard discusses the recent uproar on Twitter after journalist Guy Adams’ account was suspended for tweeting the email of an NBC executive to whom viewers could complain about NBC’s Olympic coverage. The account has been reinstated, and Twitter broke its usual silence on individual cases to discuss what had happened and why. But that’s…
Google ‘in breach’ of UK data privacy agreement
From the BBC: Google has admitted that it had not deleted users’ personal data gathered during surveys for its Street View service. The data should have been wiped almost 18 months ago as part of a deal signed by the firm in November 2010. Google has been told to give the data to the UK’s…