Declan McCullagh reports: A Federal Trade Commission representative delivered a stern indictment of current privacy laws on Monday, saying they fail to protect American consumers and instead place too much of a “burden” on them. The existing constellation of privacy laws, which relies heavily on disclosure of data collection and use practices and informed consumer…
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Tweaking Contract Law for Confidentiality Agreements (updated)
Another interesting blog post over on Concurring Opinions today, this one by Lawrence Cunningham: Can you keep a secret? If you promise to, law generally will hold you to it, even over protests that your First Amendment rights say otherwise. The famous golf pro, Tiger Woods, is reportedly asking his wife for such an ironclad…
Recommended: Contracts and Privacy
Last week, this site posted an update to the Canadian case where a customer sued Rogers Wireless for bundling her cell phone account without her authorization. Gabriela Nagy claims that her husband discovered that she had had an affair when he looked at the detailed phone records that were included in the newly bundled account….
State AGs to Probe Google’s “Deeply Disturbing Invasion” of Wi-Fi Data
John Paczkowski reports: Looks like “no harm, no foul” isn’t good enough for state regulators when it comes to the inadvertent collection of user data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks by Google’s Street View cars. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that his office is spearheading a multistate investigation into Google’s Wi-Fi data-gathering debacle. “My…