TJ McIntyre calls our attention to an important opinion: This time last year I blogged about Bonnier Audio v. Perfect Communication, the Swedish case which questioned whether data retained under the Data Retention Directive could be used in litigation to identify users accused of infringing copyright. In that case five audiobook companies brought an action against Perfect…
Category: Business
Customers must know if call monitored, court tells CashCall
Bob Egelko reports: A business must notify its customers that telephone conversations with employees will be monitored, and can be penalized $5,000 per call for secret eavesdropping, a state appeals court ruled Monday. California law “protects an individual’s right to know who is listening to a telephone conversation,” the Fourth District Court of Appeal in…
Circuit Rejects AOL Privacy Settlement, Citing Random Beneficiaries
Ginny LaRoe reports that a proposed settlement of a lawsuit against AOL over inserting promotional messages in subscribers’ e-mail footers has hit a snag: The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday rejected a class action settlement that called for AOL Inc. to give $110,000 to random charities, sending a message that courts should be more…
Do-not-track hypocrisy
Jeff Jarvis takes the New York Times to task for its editorial supporting a federal Do Not Track measure while their own behavior might be described as Extreme Tracking. You can read his column on Business Insider, here.