Europcar car rental was fined €54,000 for illegally collecting personal data. The Hamburg, Germany Commissioner for data protection and freedom of information fined Europcar €54,000, after receiving a complaint about this issue. Investigations revealed that the company was tracking the location of a fleet of 1,300 cars without the customers’ consent, which is considered illegal…
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LinkedIn can’t be sued under Stored Communications Act – court
FourthAmendment.com points us to a ruling that because LinkedIn is neither a remote computing service (RCS) nor does it provide electronic communication services (ECS), it can’t be sued under the SCA for disclosing search histories to third parties. Low v. LinkedIn Corp., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97012 (N.D. Cal. July 12, 2012). Mali Friedman discusses…
Father-son investigative team sentenced in fraud case after working for Hewlett-Packard
Two former private investigators were each sentenced Thursday to three years of probation for their roles in an infamous Silicon Valley spying scandal in which prosecutors said they used false identities to access the Social Security numbers and other information on Hewlett-Packard board members, employees and journalists. Read more from Associated Press on The Washington…
Privacy groups question NTIA’s focus on mobile privacy transparency
Grant Gross reports: The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s first step toward developing a consensus on mobile privacy standards may be the wrong step, privacy advocates said. The NTIA’s first multistakeholder meeting on mobile privacy, Thursday in Washington, D.C., focused on ways to improve the transparency of the privacy practices of mobile apps, but…