The Associated Press reports: The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires applicants for wildlife conservation licenses to include the last four digits of their Social Security numbers on the application. The Montana Shooting Sports Association had challenged the requirement, arguing it unconstitutionally infringes upon an applicant’s fundamental right to privacy. Read…
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EPIC, Privacy Groups Oppose Facebook “Beacon” Settlement
From EPIC.org: EPIC and other privacy groups sent a letter to the federal judge overseeing a class-action settlement against Facebook in California, opposing the settlement as unfair and unreasonable. As proposed, the settlement does not provide any benefit for Facebook users whose private data was illegally exposed by Facebook “Beacon.” Instead, the deal would create…
MI: Lawsuits allege firms sent junk faxes
Paul Egan reports: Companies that send unsolicited faxes are the target of class-action lawsuits filed Monday in federal court in Detroit. … The lawsuits, which still must be certified as class actions, were filed under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which Congress passed in 1991. Brian Wanca, an Illinois attorney representing lead plaintiff Imhoff Investment…
Polanski awarded damages in privacy lawsuit
Director Roman Polanski has won damages from a French newspaper that photographed him in the Swiss home where he is confined pending extradition proceedings on rape charges. A Paris court convicted French daily Aujourd’hui en France, with its Paris edition Le Parisien, of breaching Polanski’s privacy. It ordered the newspaper to pay 3000 euros ($A4671)…