From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling FTC charges that Myspace misrepresented its protection of users’ personal information. The settlement bars Myspace from future misrepresentations about its privacy practices, requires the company to implement a comprehensive privacy program, and calls for regular, independent privacy assessments for…
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Twitter Told to Produce Protestor’s Posts or Face Fine
Tiffany Kary reports: Twitter Inc. has to turn over information about an Occupy Wall Street protester’s posts or face a fine, a judge ruled, giving the company three days to show it isn’t in contempt of court. New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. in Manhattan today said Twitter must produce the information by Sept. 14 or provide its…
Shell Oil sued for secretly recording customers’ calls to customer service – complaint
In June of this year, Tuan Nguyen filed a potential class-action lawsuit again Shell Oil. The complaint alleges that Shell secretly records calls to its customer service phone number, in violation of California’s Invasion of Privacy Act. Now Law360.com reports that the lawsuit, which had been filed in Superior Court for Alameda County, has been…
Regulatory: The risks of neglecting privacy
Christopher Wolf writes: Do you recall the words of the President in the State of the Union address on the need for a new set of standards to protect personal privacy? In case you forgot: “One measure of a truly free society is the vigor with which it protects the liberties of its individual citizens….