Orin Kerr writes: I had though the world was safe from the nuttiness of the Justice Department’s broad theories of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the Lori Drew case. Not so. Readers may recall I once blogged about a similar case, United States v. Nosal, that raised similar issues in the context of an employee…
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Two Michigan women sue Google over Android data location collection
Sumit Yayavar reports: Two residents of Oakland County, Michigan, filed a lawsuit against Google over issue of tracking of Android owners’ locations. Filed in the U. S. District Court in Detroit on behalf of plaintiffs Julie Brown and Kayla Molaski, the lawsuit claims that Android-based devices secretly collected data about their locations. The $50 million…
US lawmakers: extend privacy codes to app makers
Jasmin Melvin reports: Mobile privacy safeguards should also extend to third party application developers, two lawmakers said after reviewing the practices of four major U.S. wireless carriers. Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton, co-chairs of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, on Thursday released letters they received from Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc (T.N), Sprint Nextel (S.N)…
Verizon Plans To Put Location-Tracking Warning Sticker on Phones
Kashmir Hill writes: Though Apple and Google have become the whipping boys for location privacy, both companies have said that the data sent back to them about phone users’ movements is anonymized and not traceable to individuals. That is not the case with carriers: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile do have extensive logs of people’s…