How refreshing – a tax preparer that “gets it.” Rebecca Powell reports: An H&R Block tax franchise in Loveland and seven of its clients have filed a complaint in district court, saying the tax preparation company is trying to require it to use tax software that allows customers’ information to be shared across the company….
Category: Breaches
Ninth Circuit Holds That Violating Any Employer Restriction on Computer Use “Exceeds Authorized Access” (Making It a Federal Crime)
Orin Kerr writes: I had though the world was safe from the nuttiness of the Justice Department’s broad theories of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the Lori Drew case. Not so. Readers may recall I once blogged about a similar case, United States v. Nosal, that raised similar issues in the context of an employee…
Two Michigan women sue Google over Android data location collection
Sumit Yayavar reports: Two residents of Oakland County, Michigan, filed a lawsuit against Google over issue of tracking of Android owners’ locations. Filed in the U. S. District Court in Detroit on behalf of plaintiffs Julie Brown and Kayla Molaski, the lawsuit claims that Android-based devices secretly collected data about their locations. The $50 million…
Shock: iPhones store location data (Gimme a break…)
Mike Elgan writes: Location data retention sounds like a medical condition. In a way, it is. And your phone’s probably got it. We heard about a new scandal this week. iPhones, we discovered, keep a record of every place you’ve been, or, at least, every place your phone’s been. That data is stored in a…