William Dotinga reports: Dating website conglomerate SuccessfulMatch.com posts its customers’ HIV and STD statuses on thousands of its other websites, in violation of law and its own promises of confidentiality, a class action claims in Federal Court. […] “On the home page of PositiveSingles.com, defendant lured them in with empathetic sounding statements like ‘You feel…
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U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Non-U.S. clients of American cloud hosting companies are clearly rattled by revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency collects huge amounts of customer data from Internet Service Providers and telecommunication companies. A Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) survey found that 10% of 207 officials at non-U.S. companies have canceled contracts with U.S. service…
Google Settles Vanity-Searcher’s Class-Action Lawsuit For $8.5 Million
Wendy Davis reports: Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it leaked the names of search users via referrer headers, according to court papers filed on Friday in San Jose, Calif. The settlement agreement calls for Google to donate $8.5 million to four schools and nonprofit organizations — Harvard Law’s Berkman Center…
Dutch mobile operators modify data-analysis after investigation by Dutch DPA finds violations
From the Dutch Data Protection Authority: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP) today publishes its reports resulting from the investigation into the analysis of data traffic (packet inspection) on the mobile network by the mobile operators KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile and Vodafone. These four operators are the largest mobile network providers in the Netherlands. In the…