The Womble Carlyle Team writes: Companies that make their money in the mobile computing space – application developers, device manufacturers, software adaptors – have a new worry. Many functions and applications used on iPhone devices currently rely on reporting that includes the UDID unique device identifier. Two new lawsuits against Apple for its use of…
Category: Court
Berlin court rules Street View doesn’t invade privacy
Jeremy Kirk reports on an important win for Google in a German court: Google won a civil lawsuit in Germany lodged by a woman who contended its roving camera cars that shoot photographs for Street View violated her privacy. The woman lost her case in a regional court on Sept. 13, 2010, then an appeal…
Texas Teen Scores Legal First in ‘Sexting’ Privacy Case
Matthew Heller writes: A Texas teenager has taken a major step toward winning her privacy lawsuit against an assistant middle school principal who searched the contents of her cell phone, finding a nude photo of her. Alexis Mendoza, then an eighth-grader at Kimmel Intermediate School in Spring, Texas, admitted sending the photo to a boy…
Irish telecoms fined after pleading guilty to privacy breaches and violation of data protection laws
UPC, Vodafone, O2 and Eircom have pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection laws. The charges related to the making of unsolicited marketing phone calls and sending unsolicited marketing messages. The companies were ordered to pay almost €15,000 in fines between them. UPC was convicted of the largest number of offences and received the biggest…