Associated Press reports that Google has a court date in Switzerland this week over Street View. Federal data protection commissioner Hanspeter Thuer has asked Switzerland’s top administrative court to force Google to obscure all faces also caught by the cameras or take the service offline. The court in Bern will hear both sides’ arguments Thursday…
Category: Court
Disneyland workers plan lawsuit over privacy concerns
Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix writes: Two Disneyland Resort employees will announce Tuesday that they will seek to certify a class action lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company to stop Disney from encoding the worker’s Social Security numbers in a barcode printed on their cast member identification cards. Jorge Iniestra and Josh Stern claim this practice violates a…
The Strange Case of Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd
Orin Kerr writes: Next week, the Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, a case on material witness and national security detention. Al-Kidd is a rather strange Fourth Amendment case, and in this post I wanted to explain why I think it’s strange case and how that strangeness might influence what the Court…
Apple Sued Again For Alleged Privacy Violations
Steve Satterfield writes: For the fourth time in the past two months, Apple has been sued for allegedly violating the privacy of iPad and iPhone users. Like the previous three suits (two of which we discussed in this post), Rodimer v. Apple, Inc. [PDF] alleges that Apple transmitted “personal information,” including Unique Device IDs (“UDIDs”) to application…