From the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office: Stephen Almond, ICO Executive Director of Regulatory Risk, said: As a digital regulator, we pay close attention to how companies operate internationally and how people’s rights are respected. We’re aware of Meta’s plans to seek consent from users for behavioural advertising in the EU, to the exclusion of the…
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Facebook to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts
Ashley Belanger reports: Starting today, Facebook users may feel a little less safe posting anonymously. The Court of the Hague in The Netherlands ruled that Meta Ireland must unmask an anonymous user accused of defaming the claimant, a male Facebook user who allegedly manipulated and made secret recordings of women he dated. The anonymous Facebook user posted…
Privacy Suit Covered by Insurance Policy, Illinois Court Rules
Jorja Siemons reports: An insurance company has a duty to defend a supermarket facing a former employee’s allegations that it violated her privacy rights, an Illinois federal court said in an opinion Thursday. Society Insurance had asked the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to declare that it owed no insurance coverage to Cermak…
Mobile Data Broker Kochava Must Face Consumer Privacy Suit
Andrea Vittoria reports: Kochava Inc. failed to avoid a privacy lawsuit accusing the mobile analytics company of gathering consumers’ information, including location and spending habits data, without their knowledge. Consumers didn’t properly agree to share the data “secretly” collected from their mobile phones, a judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of…