Jeremy Kirk reports: Facebook’s data retention practices are under investigation by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner following a series of complaints filed by a European group critical of the social networking site. A total of 22 complaints have been filed with the Data Protection Commissioner by Europe v. Facebook, a group that claims the company is at…
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Class Action Lawsuit Targets Pandora
Eriq Gardner reports: Pandora, the web service that allows users to customize radio stations based on listening preferences, is facing a class action lawsuit in Michigan. Peter Deacon, a Michigan resident, is leading the lawsuit with claims that Pandora is breaching customer privacy by making users’ profile pages, including favorite songs and listener history, publicly…
Theater to Pay $6.8M for Faxing Unsolicited Ads
Jamie Ross reports: A $6.8 million settlement has been reached to a 2000 class action alleging that United Artists Theatre Circuit and American Blast Fax sent unsolicited faxes for movie tickets to between 57,000 and 95,000 fax numbers in Phoenix. The lawsuit, filed in May 2000 in Maricopa County Court, claimed that the defendants’ faxes…
FTC Settlement Bans Alleged Spammer from Sending Unsolicited Text Messages
An operator who allegedly sent millions of illegal spam text messages to consumers is banned from sending any unsolicited text messages, under a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission entered by a federal court. According to the FTC complaint filed in February 2011, the marketer sent a “mind-boggling” number of unsolicited commercial text messages pitching mortgage…