David Ardia writes: With the help of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, the Citizen Media Law Project and a coalition of media and advocacy organizations submitted an amicus curiae brief last week to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in a case involving a lawyer who was arrested for using his cellphone camera to…
Category: Court
Consumer groups cheer court’s ruling on consumer privacy protections
There’s been a lot of media coverage of a decision reported here yesterday in which the California Supreme Court held that Williams-Sonoma violated a state law when it requested and recorded a customer’s zip code during a credit card transaction in a store. In a joint press release, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and Consumer Federation of…
Businesses can’t request and record your zip code in card present transactions – Calif. Sup. Ct.
Interesting opinion from the Supreme Court of California that a zip code may constitute “personal identification information.” From Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores: The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 (Credit Card Act) (Civ. Code, § 1747 et seq.) is “designed to promote consumer protection.” (Florez v. Linens ’N Things, Inc. (2003) 108 Cal.App.4th 447, 450…
Class Claims Facebook Violates Kids’ Privacy
A class action claims Facebook misappropriates the names and likeness of children and uses them in ads without permission from their parents or grandparents. The class claims that children are unable to stop Facebook from using their names and photos on a Facebook page if they have “liked” it. This constitutes an “endorsement,” and use…