Wendy Davis reports: A California Facebook user has sued the social networking company for allegedly sharing his personal information with advertisers. In a complaint filed late last week in federal district court in San Jose, David Gould of South Lake Tahoe alleges that Facebook violated its own privacy policy by disclosing to advertisers a host…
Category: Court
Attorney General issues statement regarding protection of military funerals
Attorney General Bill McCollum today released the following statement regarding the Snyder v. Phelps case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court: “Today, I am proud to announce that I have joined several other states in supporting the Snyder family in their U.S. Supreme Court case to protect those who attend military funerals from the kind…
Aspen law firm, two attorneys take on Google
Rick Carroll reports: An Aspen law firm has filed a class-action complaint on behalf of millions of Google e-mail users, alleging the Internet host violated their privacy. Filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court of Denver, the lawsuit seeks to attain class-action status on behalf of users of Google’s free e-mail service, Gmail. Aspen attorneys…
Ca: BC Hydro fights RCMP on power records
Jane Seyd reports that BC Hydro pushed back when RCMP obtained an order for them to turn over all customer records based on energy usage: North Vancouver RCMP have backed off on a request that would have forced BC Hydro to turn over the records of more than a thousand North Vancouver homeowners using large…