Michael Cieply reports: A jury in Seattle has found against Huong Hoang, the actress who sued the Internet Movie Database and its parent company, Amazon, for posting her age without her permission. The verdict, reached in Federal court on Thursday, rejected a breach of contract claim against IMDb by Ms. Hoang, who uses the name Junie Hoang in…
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SEC and CFTC Will Now Enforce Identify Theft ‘Red Flag’ Rules
Joe Mont reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted rules requiring broker-dealers, mutual funds, investment advisers and other “financial institutions” and “creditors” to adopt programs for detecting and responding to cases of identity theft. The rules, adopted jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also apply to the futures commission merchants, retail foreign…
And Privacy Kudos Of The Week Go To… Apple??
John Paul Titlow writes: Good news: If you’re running a local crime syndicate from your iPhone, the authorities are going to have a hard time reading your texts. That’s because, as the DEA recently complained, the company’s iMessage protocol is encrypted end-to-end, which prevents law enforcement from spying on users’ messages, even with a court order….
Facebook’s New Mobile Software Raises Privacy Questions
Wendy Davis reports: Facebook’s new mobile software, Facebook Home, is already raising the hackles of privacy activists, who say the company’s poor record is cause for concern. “From a privacy perspective, Facebook is an unstable platform for a communication service,” Electronic Privacy Information Center president Marc Rotenberg says in an email to MediaPost. “The company…