Sandra Fulton writes: While our electronic privacy laws have remained stagnant, online advertising has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. The browsing and communications habits of online users are routinely and secretly tracked as they surf the internet. Yesterday, Senator Rockefeller (D-WV), chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, introduced a bill to establish a Do Not Track mechanism –similar…
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Suit: 185K spyware images sent from rental computers (Updated)
The FTC may have settled charges against Aaron’s over the use of DesignerWare LLC software, but the consumers haven’t. Crystal and Brian Byrd are still pursuing a lawsuit against Aaron’s and now there’s another lawsuit filed on behalf of another consumer by the same attorneys. As Associated Press reports: Spyware installed on computers leased from…
Appeals judges will allow $9.5M Facebook privacy settlement
Joe Mullin writes: Internet privacy lawsuits, especially of the class-action variety, have been sprouting up everywhere in the past few years. Some of them have been settled for considerable sums, especially when companies are sued over publicly acknowledged privacy screw-ups that they’ve already taken heat for. One of the most notable was the $9.5 million Facebook settlement over its Beacon…
Teenage girl’s father launches Facebook court challenge
Another potential game-changer, reported by BBC: A Northern Ireland man has launched a legal challenge to compel Facebook to stop his teenage daughter using the site or publishing suggestive images. The social media company should be forced to do more to stop the 13-year-old girl having highly sexualised contact with men, the High Court heard….