Christopher Wolf, founder of the Future of Privacy Forum and an attorney with Hogan Lovells, comments about recent political conflicts over privacy protection involving Israel and then takes it to a broader level. He writes: International cooperation to promote privacy, which is essential in our information society, used to be fairly immune to politics. Clearly,…
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Lawsuit Targets Mobile Ad Company Over Sneaky HTML5 Uncookies
David Kravets writes: A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and iPad users across a number of websites, in what is believed to be the first privacy lawsuit of its kind in the mobile space. The company, Ringleader Digital,…
Echometrix agrees to stop collecting and selling kids’ chats
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced a settlement that stops the software company Echometrix from gathering information from children’s private online conversations and offering it to paying marketers. EPIC had complained to the FTC about Echometrix last year and the Dept. of Defense had subsequently canceled its contract with Echometrix in light of the complaint….
Anti-piracy law test case sent to EU Court
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. This issue concerns a case between five audiobook publishers and the Swedish ISP ePhone which appealed a lower court ruling ordering the firm to hand…