Settlements have been reached between the Indiana Attorney General’s office and two pharmacy chains – CVS and Walgreens – to resolve data-breach complaints that customers’ medical information was improperly discarded in trash bins outside pharmacy stores. The agreement comes as the Attorney General begins a new concerted effort geared to address the growing problem of…
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Power.com gets in Facebook’s face
Power.com is fighting back against Facebook’s lawsuit (pdf). Today, Power.com filed a response and countersuit (pdf). In the filing, Power.com claims that some of the actions attributed to Power.com by Facebook, such as sending out emails to contacts, actually were the doing of Facebook itself and that it was Facebook itself which inserts the Facebook…
Consumer activism produces results: iDrive Lite
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…
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…