Ellen Nakashima reports: A drop in Americans’ trust in the government is making the difficult task of public-private cooperation against cyber-threats even more difficult. And that has officials such as Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, scrambling to shore up confidence in his agency, whose image has taken a beating in…
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Manitoba Joins The Ranks Of Other Provinces In Enacting Its Own Private Sector Privacy Legislation
Daniel G. C. Glover and Roland Hung of McCarthy Tétrault LLP write: The Government of Manitoba recently enacted the Personal Information Protection and Identity Theft Prevention Act (PIPITPA) to regulate the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the private sector in Manitoba.1The statute has not come into force, but this enactment is momentous, as it…
Email users sue Yahoo over keyword scanning as Google prepares to fight Gmail suit
Adi Robertson reports: A week after Google failed to convince a judge that Gmail keyword scanning didn’t violate wiretap laws, Yahoo has also been slapped with a class-action privacy lawsuit. A pair of non-Yahoo users say that by scanning incoming emails to serve more targeted ads, Yahoo was effectively intercepting and reading their mail. As non-users, they argue…
Hulu Asks Judge To Dismiss Video Privacy Class-Action
Wendy Davis reports: Hulu argues in new court papers that a lawsuit accusing it of violating a federal video privacy law should be dismissed on the ground that the Web users who filed suit didn’t suffer any injuries. Read more on MediaPost.