It was only a matter of time. Even though Instagram issued a hasty clarification on its new Terms of Service, it’s already been hit with a class action lawsuit. Dan Levine of Reuters reports: Facebook’s Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed…
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Apple Ducks Liability in Application Privacy Case
Philip Janquart reports that Apple’s Christmas got a little bit better when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against it by Maria Pirozzi. Pirozzi had sued Apple for allegedly failing to screen third-party app developers whose apps upload user information from mobile devices. In her complaint, Pirozzi calls out apps such as Angry Birds, Twitter,…
Italian court overturns Google executives’ privacy convictions
I had tweeted the good news on Friday, but didn’t have print coverage to link to. Now I do: Philip Willan reports that the convictions of three Google executives for breaking Italian privacy laws have been overturned. The February 2010 convictions, which included suspended jail sentences, were worrisome because they made individual executives of firms…
PA: Jeannette minor files lawsuit against use of computer cookies
I suppose it was inevitable. Rich Lord of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: A Jeannette child filed a lawsuit Friday, seeking class action status and accusing Viacom Inc. and Google Inc. of improperly using tiny computer programs called cookies to track the online activity of children. Identified only as K.T., the girl is under 13 years…