Joel Brakken reports: A man is suing a debt collection company for allegedly failing to cease phone calls after he filed a civil action. Ricky Henderson filed a lawsuit Dec. 13 in the Putnam County Circuit Court against Comenity Bank, citing violations of the state Consumer Credit and Protection Act, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy. The…
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Hotels Don’t Have to Hand Over Guest Records, Appeals Court Says
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…
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…