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…
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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…
Lawsuit launched against Google over privacy concerns in B.C.
Tara Carman reports: A Sunshine Coast man is taking Internet giant Google to court for allegedly mining and profiting from information sent to Gmail accounts from non-Gmail users. The lawsuit, filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, is a proposed class action that, if certified by the court, could potentially include anyone in the…
Gotcha! Group uncovers privacy lies in websites’ fine print
Ted Samson reports: What are the odds that the average person reads the ToS (terms of service) before signing on to a new social networking site, email service, or any other service or software? Probably slightly worse than the odds that the average user will, indeed, RTFM (read the freaking manual) before calling the help…