Simmons, Joshua L., Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’ (September 19, 2009). Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2009, No. 3, p. 950. The full-text article is available as a free download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1475524 Abstract: Your information is for sale, and the government is buying it at alarming…
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Online ad networks mostly comply with privacy rules – NAI
Grant Gross reports: Despite concerns from some privacy groups and U.S. lawmakers about behavioral advertising, most large advertising networks generally comply with a set of privacy and data-handling standards adopted by the Network Advertising Initiative a year ago, the NAI said in a report released Wednesday.The NAI’s first annual audit of its members privacy and…
Pennsylvania Walmart Sued for Videotaping Employees, Customers in Bathroom
Nathalie Tadena reports: A Pennsylvania Walmart Supercenter videotaped employees and customers in a unisex bathroom, several former and current Walmart employees alleged in a lawsuit filed this week. Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at the Walmart in Easton, Pa., filed a lawsuit in county court against the Arkansas-based corporation…
NYS seeks to enjoin Great Date Now and Meet Over Drinks
New York State is seeking a fine and an injunction against Great Date Now and its affiliate Meet Over Drinks for allegedly engaging in illegal and fraudulent practices in its social referral business. According to the petition, made available by Courthouse News, Great Date Now engaged in a number of practices that violate NYS law,…