Joel Rosenblatt reports: Apple Inc. was sued over claims that applications for the company’s iPhone and iPad transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent. The complaint, which seeks class action, or group, status, was filed on Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California. The suit claims Cupertino, California-based Apple’s iPhones…
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MN: Teachers named in cases involving student bullying are now suing about privacy
Dennis Carlson, superintendent of the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, has been trying to “correct inaccurate statements about students who have committed suicide over the past year.” Mr. Carlson has always publicly stated that school officials did not ignore reports from parents and students about anti-gay bullying, like the kind that led Justin Aaberg to…
Info Sought on Surveillance Of Day Laborers
Sabrina Canfield reports: A man who faces deportation based on information the Border Patrol got through worker raids demands documents about the raids. He says the documents will shed light on federal agents’ “covert surveillance and raids on day labor corners in New Orleans targeting reconstruction workers.” It is Joaquin Navarro Hernandez’s second request for…
McDonald’s, CBS, Mazda & Microsoft Mine Data from Web Ads, Class Says
McDonald’s, CBS, Mazda and Microsoft use their Internet ads as a cover for data-mining, to identify the websites people visit, invading people’s privacy, misappropriating their personal information and interfering with the operations of their computers, a class action claims in Federal Court. “Defendants acted in concert with [nonparty] Interclick, mining consumers’ web browser histories for…