Dan Solove has been developing short cartoons to teach people about privacy. Check out his “App from Hell” one. It’s spot on, of course, and it’s a message that needs to be circulated more widely.
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Student group to take Facebook to court in Ireland
BBC reports that the same student who causes tsures for Facebook over disclosing user data and facial recognition is not happy with Facebook again. Max Schrems and Europe v Facebook are hoping to take Facebook to court . “The Irish authority is miles away from other European data protection authorities in its understanding of the…
Vibrant Seeks Dismissal Of Safari-Hack Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: Arguing that consumers weren’t injured “in any legally recognizable way,” Vibrant Media has formally asked a federal judge to throw out a privacy lawsuit stemming from the so-called Safari hack. Vibrant’s request came in response to a potential class-action lawsuit filed in May by Web users Daniel Mazzone and Michelle Kusanto. They alleged that…
Estonian Companies Rapped for Illegally Publishing Private Debt Data
The Data Protection Inspectorate announced on Wednesday that it has taken 12 credit rating and collection agencies to task for illegally listing the names and birth dates of private debtors on their websites. In a release, the inspectorate said that it has issued injunctions to five of the companies to remove the data. The others…