Haven’t seen one of these in a while…. a California consumer filed a potential class action lawsuit against Lululemon and Lululemon Athletica alleging violation of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act. The law prohibits merchants engaged in a credit card transaction from requiring personal information such as zip code, except in certain cases. In this case,…
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Google ‘to be told by EU to unravel privacy policy’
Charles Arthur reports: Google will be told on Tuesday to unravel the controversial changes introduced in March to its European privacy policy, legal sources have told the Guardian. The French data protection commissioner, the CNIL, will be holding a press conference on Tuesday to announce the results of its deliberations together with the data protection chiefs of the…
Google Urges Court to Toss Gmail Privacy Suit
Jonny Bonner reports: A class is “contorting” state law “in ways the California Legislature never intended” by claiming that Gmail violates California privacy statutes, Google said in a motion to dismiss. Lead plaintiffs Brad Scott and Todd Harrington claim that the web-based service scans emails for words and content, and intentionally intercepts messages between non-Gmail…
Facebook confirms researcher exploited privacy settings to quickly collect user phone numbers
Emil Protalinski writes: On Friday, a researcher by the name of Suriya Prakash claimed that the majority of phone numbers on Facebook are not safe. It’s not clear where he got his numbers from (he says 98 percent, while another time he says 500 million out of Facebook’s600 million mobile users), but his demonstration certainly showed he…