Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users’ devices without their knowledge and without obtaining warrants, according to a class-action lawsuit filed this week by the New Civil Liberties Alliance. […] The Massachusetts app, according to…
Category: Breaches
EdTech: Surveillance Tracker
From Privacy International: Students shouldn’t have to trade their right to privacy in order to access their right to an education. The use of Education Technology (EdTech) has been expanding rapidly all over the world, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. That expansion frequently hasn’t been accompanied by appropriate safeguards or responsible practices, from data protection…
Facebook’s $90M Privacy Deal Gets Final Nod Over Objections
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 14, 2022, Judge Edward J. Davila of the Northern District of California approved a $90 million privacy settlement against Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.) for unlawfully tracking user information when users were logged out of the site. Under the order granting plaintiffs’ motion for final approval of the class action…
Google settles “Location History” lawsuit with 40 states, will pay $392 million
Ron Amadeo reports: Google has settled a privacy lawsuit with a coalition of 40 state attorneys general today. Google agreed to pay $391.5 million for misleading Location History settings the company was running from 2014-2020. Google’s Location History settings have gotten it in trouble with several regulatory bodies. The action began after a 2018 Associated Press article pointed out…