Bridget Freeland reports: A businessman sued Bravo Network and NBC, claiming they showed an “unflattering portrayal” of him at a speed dating night in “Real Housewives of Atlanta” after promising to edit him out. George Page, CEO of an artists’ social networking venture GotADemo, claims that a review of the show said Bravo made him…
Category: Breaches
Gmail Breach Lawsuit Can’t Be Secret, Judge Says
Thomas Claburn reports on an interesting breach-related lawsuit. Apparently, a Rocky Mountain Bank employee accidentally sent a confidential file containing customer names, addresses, tax identification numbers, and loan information for over 1,300 individuals and business clients to the wrong Gmail address. When the bank tried to contact the recipient of the errant email to…
Judge rules for Harkat over search
Andrew Duffy reports: Canada’s border agency engaged in an unauthorized intelligence-gathering exercise, rather than a legitimate search, when it raided the home of Ottawa terror suspect Mohamed Harkat, a Federal Court judge has ruled. Judge Simon Noël said Harkat’s constitutional right to privacy was seriously breached in last month’s raid, which featured 16 law enforcement…
Do social network acquisitions run roughshod over privacy?
Attorney Venkat Balasubramani has a commentary on the issue that begins: Did Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed comport with FriendFeed’s privacy policy? In arguing this point, lawyers may debate the nuances of the policy, but consumers are largely left in the dark. Most observers pegged the recent acquisition by FriendFeed of Facebook and by Mint of…