A US company faces a copyright, trespass and trade secrets lawsuit because it ‘scraped’ the website of a rival on behalf of a client. The case underlines the legal uncertainty surrounding the practice. Website ‘scraping’ is the practice of automatically taking information from a website and can be used to retrieve the contents of entire…
Category: Business
TransUnion battling attempts to ban employment credit checks
Julie Wernau reports: TransUnion, the Chicago-based credit reporting agency controlled by the powerful Pritzker family, is fighting to preserve the use of credit checks in employment screening, even as several states, including Illinois, threaten to outlaw the practice in most circumstances as discriminatory. […] TransUnion has publicly defended credit checks as a way for employers…
Women’s Clothing Retailer Talbots and its Telemarketer to Pay Total of $161,000 for Violating FTC’s Robocall ‘Opt-Out’ Requirements
Women’s clothing retailer Talbots and its California marketing company have agreed to pay penalties totaling $161,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they illegally delivered prerecorded “robocalls” that failed to give consumers proper notice of their right to opt out of receiving telemarketing calls. Talbots operates stores in 587 locations in 47 states, the…
Za: Data headache for Home Affairs
Warren Gwilt reports: The Department of Home Affairs is to probe whether private security companies are violating national security for profit. Security companies are demanding ID numbers and fingerprints for access to exclusive residential estates across the country. These are checked against a database of 53 million people that mimics the government’s records. […] Ideco,…