Martin Bryant writes: Foursquare has sent an email to its users detailing changes to its privacy policy that are due to come into effect late next month. The company says that the changes are aimed at making the way it displays users’ names less confusing and allowing businesses to see more visitors who have recently checked in at…
Category: Business
Websites Vary Prices, Deals Based on Users’ Information
If you still think there’s no real down side to providing your location or associating it with your profile, see if you still feel that way after reading the Wall Street Journal‘s findings that online retailers are adjusting their prices depending on where they think you’re located. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeremy Singer-Vine, and Ashkan Soltani recently…
California Federal Court Finally Tells Merchants When They Can Ask Consumers for Personal Infomation – But Will the California Supreme Court Agree?
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 –…
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…