Nick McCann reports: Hulu asked a federal judge to take its side in the class action alleging illegal disclosure of viewer data to Facebook and a business-analytics service. Joseph Garvey is the lead plaintiff in the February 2012 lawsuit claiming that Hulu “repurposed” its browser cache so marketing-analysis services could store users’ private data. While…
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Max Mosley wins privacy lawsuit against Google in France
Not surprisingly if you’ve been following Max Mosley’s fight to remove embarrassing photos of a private sex party from Google search results, he has gotten a French court to order Google to filter results so those images don’t show up in its results worldwide. Google says it will appeal the ruling as requiring it to set…
Apple reports on U.S. data demands, claims privacy is paramount
Martyn Williams reports: Apple on Tuesday provided a report on how much data on users governments have demanded from the company, and sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data. Apple fielded requests from U.S. law enforcement agencies for details on between 2,000 and 3,000 accounts…
NSA spying scandal a boon to data-mining start-up developed by former NSA employees
Michael B. Farrell reports: The National Security Agency’s digital snooping may have inflamed a national debate over privacy, but it has been a godsend for a tiny start-up in Cambridge. The company, Sqrrl Data Inc., was founded by six former employees of the spy agency. They had helped build the massive database the NSA uses…