Paula Reed Ward reports: The police chief for Industry filed a lawsuit against AT&T Mobility recently, claiming the company improperly released his cell phone records to his wife. Garold Ray Miller filed the claim for invasion of privacy in Beaver County last month, but it was moved to federal court on Tuesday. […] Mr. Miller’s…
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UK: ICO Statement on Google WiFi data
A spokesperson for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said: “The ICO has visited Google’s premises to assess samples of the ‘pay-load’ data it inadvertently collected. Whilst Google considered it unlikely that it had collected anything other than fragments of content, we wanted to make our own judgement as to the likelihood that significant personal data…
What your phone app doesn’t say: It’s watching
Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press reports: Your smart phone applications are watching you – much more closely than you might like. Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and phones built around Google Inc.’s Android software. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data…
Senators fail to agree on privacy approach
Declan McCullagh reports: After six months worth of allegations of privacy invasions involving some of the largest Internet companies, it should come as no surprise that politicians are calling for new laws. The fact that it’s an election year probably made it inevitable. But an unusually lengthy Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Tuesday, titled “Consumer…