Do people just sit around and wait for revelations of privacy problems to initiate potential class action lawsuits? It sure seems that way recently. Facebook is being sued by a group of users over claims it tracks their online activity after they log off. The claims were exposed by an Australian technology blogger, Nik Cubrilovic,…
Category: Breaches
Private Conversations and the Disclosure of Private Facts Tort
Eugene Volokh has a commentary on The Volokh Conspiracy that will likely surprise some people and inform: Occasionally, I see assertions that disclosing certain private information about someone — for instance, details of their sex lives, medical history, or financial affairs — would be tortious, even if the disclosure is in a private conversation. (See,…
25% of tested Google Chrome extensions allow data theft
27 of a 100 tested Google Chrome extensions have been found vulnerable to data (passwords, history, etc.) extraction attacks though specially crafted malicious websites or by attackers on public WiFi networks. […] But, there’s also good news: 49 of the 51 vulnerabilities found can be patched by simply adapting the extensions to use one of…
Fr: CNIL Cites French Yellow Pages Operator for Illegal Use of Social Media Data
Winston Maxwell writes: France’s Data Protection Authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) announced on September 23, 2011 that it had found the French provider of universal telephone directory services, “Pages Jaunes,” guilty of violating several provisions of the French data protection law. The CNIL did not fine Pages Jaunes, but published a detailed warning, listing each…