Inforrm’s Blog has more about a case previously noted on this site. Mark Thomson writes: On 5 November 2010 Mr Justice Tugendhat handed down judgment in JIH v News Group Newspapers ([2010] EWHC 2818 (QB)) another privacy injunction case about anonymity. Following his recent decision in Gray v UVW ([2010] EWHC 2367 (QB)), he again decided that,…
Category: Court
Google’s Privacy Practices Clouded By Lawsuit
Charles Babcock writes: Google sees itself as a disruptive force, first in reorganizing the world’s information and second at delivering email and other services from the cloud. Its pride as a disrupter is getting in the way of convincing state and federal governments to accept its cloud services. Previously, Google complained to the press that…
Brussels blocks UK from biometric superdatabase
Chris Williams reports: European judges have rejected an attempt by British security officials to gain access to a huge new store of visa application data being set up to combat illegal immigration, organised crime and terrorism. The government went to court to force the EU to allow agencies such as MI5, SOCA and the UK…
Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Ringleader Digital of Hacking Cell Phones to Create ‘Zombie Databases’
Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News reports: Ringleader Digital, an advertising company “hacked the mobile phones of millions of consumers” to create a database of customers’ demographic information for the benefit of major media networks such as Fox News and CNN, according to a federal class action. Delaware-based Ringleader “stamped” a “Unique Device Identifier” into customers’…