Michael A. Thurman and Michael Mallow of Loeb & Loeb LLP write: A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California issued an opinion Dec. 17, 2012, that seems to answer definitively a question that has weighed on the minds of California merchants for the past several years: When –…
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Court Dismisses Class Action Against Apple Over Its App Developers’ Information Collection Practices
Venkat Balasubramani and Eric Goldman provide commentary on Pirozzi v. Apple, a case mentioned previously on this blog. Kicking off with the ever-popular issue of Standing, Venkat writes: The court dismisses on the basis of standing, but there were two interesting aspects to the standing discussion. First, plaintiff cited to a bunch of somewhat persuasive…
Online privacy’s 2012 setbacks, advances
From the San Francisco Chronicle: The past year saw setbacks and advances in efforts to update privacy rules for the digital age, but consumers, officials and the media have at least begun to set down some clear minimum standards. Their collective rebukes repeatedly chastened those who crossed the invisible boundary of online privacy in 2012, sending…
Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?
Scott Shackford writes: This morning, Matt Welch took note of the Senate’s bipartisan effort to stop amendments to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that would make the domestic surveillance program more transparent and require compliance with the Fourth Amendment. […] The traditional media response to the reauthorization battle has been remarkably nonexistent. […] Compare the lack…