LexisNexis mismatched information about people in consumer reports and published the mistakes to third parties, a class action claims in Federal Court. The class claims LexisNexis’ reports included details about people who were not the intended subjects, due to its failure to correctly identify consumer data. Its publication of the inaccurate data was intentional and…
Category: Business
Twitter lawyers up
The BBC reports that Twitter is speaking with lawyers after over 300 documents were hacked and then published on the web. As reported yesterday, TechCrunch has published some of the documents that did not contain personal information. But the hacked documents being published are not the only security problem Twitter is dealing with this week….
Pay as you drive “black boxes” threaten privacy
The California Department of Insurance (DOI) is considering regulations that would enable insurance prices to depend on the precise number of miles a car is driven in a given billing period. But in implementing these “Pay As You Drive” regulations, the DOI appears poised to empower insurance companies to require customers’ cars to be outfitted…
More on Twittergate
Many of the headlines today discuss a story mentioned earlier today on this site — how Twitter got hacked and TechCrunch decided to publish some of the documents they were sent by the hacker. Steve Ragan of Tech Herald provides coverage of the ethical controversy raised by Tech Crunch’s decision and agrees with their stance,…