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…
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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….
Apple’s Persistent Device ID is a Threat to Privacy
Chris Soghoian started off his first week at the ACLU with a bang: Today, a group known as Antisec released a collection of one million UDIDs—serial numbers associated with Apple mobile devices, such as iPhones and iPads—which they claim came from a trove of 12 million UDIDs pilfered from an FBI agent’s laptop. The FBI…
A Question for Twitter’s Free Speech Defender
Somini Sengupta reports: Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company. That conviction explains why he spends so much of Twitter’s time and money going toe to toe with officers and apparatchiks both here and abroad. Last…