Woodrow Hartzog writes: Privacy settings and other technological controls used to protect privacy have been justifiably criticized a bit lately. Danielle Citron recently blogged at Concurring Opinions about an important new study conducted by Columbia’s Michelle Madejski, Maritza Johnson and Steve Bellovin that found that Facebook’s default privacy settings fail to capture real-world expectations. The United Kingdom…
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Ninth Circuit Holds That Violating Any Employer Restriction on Computer Use “Exceeds Authorized Access” (Making It a Federal Crime)
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…
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)…