Certegy Check Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest check authorization service companies, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Certegy, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a consumer reporting agency (CRA) that compiles consumers’ personal information and uses it to…
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Honoring Do-Not-Track Browser Signals
Noting that some businesses do not honor Do-Not-Track headers, Carly Ziegler writes: Regardless of whether a company chooses to honor DNT headers, it is important to ensure that the company’s actions are consistent with whatever privacy policies it has in place. Read more on Proskauer. She’s right, of course, but let’s get back to that…
GOOGLE: If You Use Gmail, You Have ‘No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy’ (Updated)
Paul Szoldra reports: If you happen to be one of the 400 million people who use Google’s Gmail service for sending and receiving emails, you shouldn’t have any expectation of privacy, according to a court briefing obtained by the Consumer Watchdog website. In a motion filed last month by Google to have a class action complaint dismissed, Google’s…
Ruling shows that deleting personal data can remove burdens brought by data subject access requests, says expert
Yes, Virginia, if you don’t store it forever, you’ll have less cost protecting it or producing it: A ruling by the High Court on the issue of dealing with data subject access requests highlights the positives that can be derived by businesses that decide to dispose of personal data records they no longer need, an…