It started with a situation described on The Consumerist: Don’t install the iPhone app iDrive Lite if you value the privacy of your contact list. Avi Muchnick, one of the developers behind the free, consumer-friendly online graphics suite Aviary, used iDrive to backup his Gmail contact list when switching to a new phone. The next…
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UK police won’t reopen phonetap case
British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities’ mobile phone voicemails by journalists, despite new allegations against a Rupert Murdoch newspaper. […] Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police said the original probe had concluded that phone tapping had occurred in only a minority of cases. All…
NY AG suing Tagged.com
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he has served the social networking site Tagged.com (“Tagged”) with formal notice that his office intends to sue the company for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy. According to Cuomo’s notice of intent, Tagged devised an illegal plan to lure new members and artificially inflate…
Black’s Photography sued over pot pics
A southern Ontario woman suing Black’s Photography over pictures of her marijuana plants will have to produce the photos in court. Agnieska Wojtanowska says Black’s violated her Charter rights back in 2001 when a worker handed the photos over to police. Drug charges were later dropped when the pictures were excluded as evidence because they…