Privacy News & Issues
The Canadian Press reports: A panel of judges says Facebook broke federal privacy law by failing to adequately inform users of the risks to their data upon signing up to the popular social media platform. The Federal Court of Appeal found that Facebook, now known as Meta, did not obtain the meaningful consent required by…
Clothilde Goujard reports: The Irish privacy watchdog opened an investigation Thursday into one of Google’s artificial intelligence systems, marking a new step in European regulators’ escalating fight with tech firms over the development of new technology. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Google may not have evaluated how and if its gathering of Europeans’ personal…
Suzanne Smalley reports: Whitepages is the latest data broker to be sued for allegedly flouting laws barring the publication of home addresses and other personal information belonging to judges, police officers, prosecutors and others in law enforcement. A retired West Virginia police officer filed a class action lawsuit against the company late last month for publishing his…
Leslie Shanklin, Jeff Warshafsky, Aaron Francis, and Anna W. Chan of Proskauer write: There has been a recent surge of privacy class action lawsuits under the Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act targeting the use of common email marketing analytics technologies. Defendants are asserting standard defenses including lack of Article III standing as…