Gary Ridley reports: Did your subscription to People, Sports Illustrated, Time or other magazines give their publishers the right to sell your personal information? A series of federal lawsuits claim that’s what happening and want it to stop. Three class-action lawsuits on the dockets of federal courts in Flint and Detroit accuse a number of…
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Twitter in legal spat with Aussie entrepreneur over data clampdown
Gerry Shih reports: Jodee Rich, the Australian entrepreneur who founded the now defunct telco One.Tel, has won a court order granting him continued access to Twitter’s entire data stream for his analytics firm PeopleBrowsr. The ruling comes as Twitter tightens its grip over the 140-character messages on its network, sparking debate in Silicon Valley over whether…
Who’s Tracking Your Reading Habits? An E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy, 2012 Edition
Cindy Cohn and Parker Higgins write: See the chart here. The holiday shopping season is upon us, and once again e-book readers promise to be a very popular gift. Last year’s holiday season saw ownership of a dedicated e-reader device spike tonearly 1 in 5 Americans, and that number is poised to go even higher….
Google renews objections to class action lawsuit over scanning non-Gmail subscribers’ emails
Jonny Bonner reports: Google has renewed its objections to a class action alleging that it intercepts emails and eavesdrops on online users in violation of California privacy laws. In a brief filed in San Jose, the tech giant says two lead plaintiffs took “isolated words out of context” and misapplied state law, which “does not…