Joanna Stern reports: The co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus today expressed disappointment with Google’s response to his petition for the technology company to address and explain its Google Glass privacy policies. “I am disappointed in the responses we received from Google,” Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said in a statement released today. “There were…
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Privacy class actions: Current trends and new frontiers in 2013
David F. McDowell, D. Reed Freeman Jr., and Jacob M. Harper, Morrison & Foerster LLP write: While we have seen a new wave of privacy class actions, the issues facing the federal courts are the same: how to reconcile an inarticulable discomfort with data methods asserted in privacy class actions with their constitutional mandate to…
IAB lashes out at Mozilla
Mozilla’s recent announcement that it was moving ahead with Do Not Track has been met with a somewhat predictable response. From IAB’s CEO and President Randall Rothenberg: Mozilla is obviously a very factionalized organization. It’s like mob rule. It’s very difficult if you’re a rational player. We like to think of ourselves at IAB as…
Judge scrutinizes Facebook deal to end privacy lawsuit over ads
Dan Levine reports: Child rights advocates tried to convince a U.S. judge on Friday that a Facebook (FB.O) legal settlement did not go far enough to keep content created by minors out of the hands of advertisers. […] At a hearing on Friday, Children’s Advocacy Institute attorney Robert Fellmeth told Seeborg that no minors should…