Daniel Solove writes that he has uploaded the final published version of his article, Fourth Amendment Pragmatism, 51 B.C. L. Rev. 1511 (2010) to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: In this essay, Professor Solove argues that the Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy test should be abandoned. Instead of engaging in a fruitless game of determining whether…
Category: Court
Privacy Class Actions Lag Behind the Online World
Amy Miller reports: Plaintiffs attorney Scott Kamber is a privacy watchdog for consumers in the online world. Over the years, he’s filed many class actions against companies over various security breaches of online information. But recently, he’s focused his efforts on a different type of online privacy suit. He’s filed dozens of class actions against…
Facebook Sued For Having Privacy Controls In Place. Yes, Seriously.
Robin Wauters writes: Last week Facebook was hit with yet another patent lawsuit, this time by Walker Digital, an “invention company” founded by Jay S. Walker, co-inventor of Priceline.com. And boy does this one come straight out of left field. Bloomberg Businessweek first reported the news last Wednesday, but for whatever reason got the number of the patent-in-suit…
Class action lawsuit over sale of Florida drivers’ data can proceed
The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit can be filed against Florida over the sale of personal driver’s license information to a private firm. The lawsuit claims the state, specifically the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, improperly sold about 30 million personal records between 2005 and 2009…