Alison Frankel writes: There were something like 100 million potential class members in the Facebook privacy class action whose terms were announced this weekend. The $10 million Facebook agreed to pay to resolve claims that it violated users’ privacy by rebroadcasting their “likes” of certain advertisements would have meant just 10 cents per class member,…
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Hulu privacy class action deferred; Online industry awaits Supreme Court decision on class actions
Chris Rizo reports: The federal court decision in a putative class-action lawsuit accusing online-video provider Hulu of wrongfully disclosing subscribers’ viewing data was deferred pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a seemingly unrelated case that has some of the nation’s largest online companies on edge. The fate of the closely watched privacy class action…
Lawsuit against Google over autocomplete function filed in Japan (updated)
Google’s facing another lawsuit over its autocomplete function in search. But this time, the lawsuit is in Japan. Jiji Press reports: The man filed the suit with the Tokyo District Court on Friday, demanding that Mountain View, Calif.-based Google pay damages and stop displaying results that he claims violate his privacy. The court issued an…
You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome
Natasha Singer reports: It peers deeper into American life than the F.B.I. or the I.R.S., or those prying digital eyes at Facebook and Google. If you are an American adult, the odds are that it knows things like your age, race, sex, weight, height, marital status, education level, politics, buying habits, household health worries, vacation…