Charles Arthur reports: Google’s unilateral change to its privacy policy in March will come under fire from European data protection commissioners within days, sources say. The controversial changes, in which Google tied together the previously separate data collected under services including its search engine, YouTube and Google+ were announced in January and implemented two months later. While creating…
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Revised proposed settlement in Facebook “Sponsored Stories” lawsuit
Back in August, I noted that a judge had rejected a proposed settlement in Fraley v. Facebook, a lawsuit over “sponsored stories.” Eric Goldman points us to a copy of the amended settlement proposal, now available online. Here are some of the terms of the amended proposal: Facebook will revise its Terms of Use to include…
No harm, no foul? Facebook seeks dismissal of $15B tracking lawsuit
Joel Rosenblatt reports: Facebook Inc. (FB) said a $15 billion lawsuit accusing the company of secretly tracking the Internet activity of its users after they log off should be dismissed because the subscribers didn’t specify how they were harmed. The complaint suffers from an “utter lack of allegations of any injury to these particular named…
Florida AG Confirms PC Surveillance Tool Investigation
Mathew J. Schwartz followed up on the FTC action against DesignerWare, LLC, and uncovered some interesting details about the firm’s bankruptcy and legal woes. As this blog was the first to report, DesignerWare filed for bankruptcy in March 2012. Schwartz found out, though, that they are facing problems on multiple fronts: DesignerWare’s bankruptcy filing listed the following…