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…
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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…
Kr: PIPC Imposes a New Round of Sanctions against Meta Inc, Meta Ireland, and Instagram
July 27, 2023 (This is an unofficial and modified translation from a Korean-language press release.) On July 26, the Personal Information Protection Commission (“PIPC”) held a plenary meeting and reached a decision to impose administrative fines of approximately KRW 6.5 billion (approx. USD 5.1 million) against Meta Platforms, Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) and KRW 886…
Hobbs has questions about data breach that exposed ESA student info
Gloria Rebecca Gomez reports: A data breach exposed the personal information of thousands of Arizona students enrolled in the state’s school voucher program, according to Gov. Katie Hobbs, but the state’s top education official says it’s not a problem. Earlier this month, ClassWallet, the online financial administration platform that handles payments for Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship…