Reuters reports: Britain’s Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at London’s High Court on Monday as he and six other high profile figures began their lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail paper over years of alleged phone-tapping and privacy breaches. Harry, the younger son of King Charles, has brought a lawsuit against Associated…
Category: Breaches
Meta Judge Grudgingly OKs $37.5M Tracking Deal For Now
A California federal judge on Thursday said he’d initially OK Meta’s $37.5 million deal to resolve claims it tracked 70 million users’ locations but pressed for a cy pres-only distribution, saying “no one” will submit a claim for “50 cents” and his approval is “the dictionary definition of ‘preliminary.’” Read more at Law360 (paywalled).
Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner
Niki Burnside reports: Some Canberra Health Services (CHS) patients’ records have been emailed to people outside of the organisation, in what has been described as a “serious breach of privacy”. In an all-staff email, CHS chief executive Dave Peffer said the records had been sent by a small number of staff to multiple people within…
Tech Lobbyists Don’t Want States to Let You Sue Over Privacy Violations
Anna Edgerton reports: As soon as Kentucky’s legislative session opened this year, state Senator Whitney Westerfield re-introduced a data privacy bill to give consumers more control over personal information online. He knew what would come next. Last year, when he introduced similar legislation, industry lobbyists swooped in with an alternative bill based on a business-friendly…