Joe Palazzola reports: While federal courts in New York and Washington mull the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records, a panel of judges in California has answered another weighty Fourth Amendment question: Do we have an expectation of privacy in our hotel guest records? No, we do not, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court…
Category: Business
Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge rules
Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports: Hulu has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the video streaming service of illegally sharing users’ viewing history with Facebook Inc and business metrics company comScore Inc. In San Francisco on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler rejected Hulu’s argument that viewers needed to show…
RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship
RSA responds to the recent report by Joseph Menn of Reuters that they entered into a $10 million contract with NSA to use a flawed random number generator in BSAFE. Menn had reported, in part: Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating…
No shame at the DMA, either
I’ve previously noted how Pam Dixon of World Privacy Forum gave extremely powerful testimony before Senator Rockefeller’s hearing on data brokers. Pam had pointed out that marketers had no shame, and she used as her example that there were lists on sale for “rape sufferers” for 7.9 cents/name (you can read WPF’s full testimony here). Within…