Carolyn Thompson reports: A man suing for part ownership of Facebook must give lawyers for the social networking company access to every email he’s exchanged since 2003, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Richard Arcara denied Paul Ceglia’s request to delay Facebook’s access to his emails so he could object on privacy grounds. It was…
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France Introduces Data Security Breach Notification Requirement for Electronic Communication Service Providers
On August 24, 2011, France’s new law concerning electronic communications (Ordonnance n° 2011-1012 du 24 août 2011 relative aux communications électroniques, or the “Ordinance”) came into force. The Ordinance implements the provisions of the revised EU Directive 2002/58/EC (the “e-Privacy Directive”) with respect to the French Data Protection Act of 1978, the French Postal and Electronic Communications…
Google Sued in Massachusetts for Scanning Emails Sent To Gmail Account
Lisa Branco writes about a lawsuit that may be interesting to follow: A Massachusetts woman filed a class action suit in Mass. state court against Google on July 29, alleging that Google violated Massachusetts’ wiretap law by scanning messages she sent from her AOL account to recipients’ Gmail accounts. Massachusetts is one of several states…
Privacy lawsuit targets comScore
Dan Levine and Jim Finkle report: Online data tracking service comScore Inc siphons confidential information including passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers from unsuspecting users, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of two plaintiffs who downloaded comScore software, also says comScore scans all files…