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…
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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…
App developers, privacy advocates work out suggestions for policy disclosure
Hayley Tsukayama reports: Did you know which apps are looking at your contacts list? Your calendar? Your location? Even when apps provide information on what data they access, the notifications are often so cumbersome to read that users skip right over them. To curb that problem, app developers and privacy advocates have collaborated to come…
New data on privacy policies shows 20% of sites may sell data
Joe Mullin reports: … Of the top 2,500 sites, 63 percent of them promise that they generally don’t share data, another 10 percent don’t share data for marketing purposes (apple.com falls into this category), and about 8 percent don’t collect personal data at all. That leaves 20 percent of sites that make no promise about whether…