Brandon Gee reports: A group of Nashville residents and attorneys are part of a class-action lawsuit against Internet giant Google that could go down as the largest invasion-of-privacy case in history. The company is accused of breaking federal and state wiretap laws from 2007 to 2010. That’s when vehicles that were deployed nationwide to collect…
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Skype and Google asked to cooperate with India surveillance
John Ribeiro reports: The controversy over India’s demand that it be allowed to monitor online and mobile communications resurfaced again on Wednesday, with an Indian minister telling reporters that the government had asked Skype, Google and several other companies to give it access. Google said that it had not received any communication on the issue…
Tracking the Trackers: Early Results
Jonathan Mayer writes: Over the past several months researchers at the Stanford Security Labhave been developing a platform for measuring dynamic web content. One of our chief applications is a system for automated enforcement of Do Not Track by detecting the myriad forms of third-party tracking, includingcookies, HTML5 storage, fingerprinting, and much more. While the software isn’t quite polished enough…
Injunction Denied in Rental Computer ‘Spyware’ Case
Reuben Kramer reports the latest development in a customer surveillance case involving Aaron’s: A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction sought by a Wyoming couple who claim Aaron’s, one of the nation’s largest rental chains, spied on customers through spyware on rent-to-own computers. Crystal and Brian Byrd, on behalf of a proposed class of consumers…