A Washington, D.C. resident has filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court against a website which is allegedly selling financial and personal information about individuals without their consent. In the proposed class-action lawsuit, Tom Robins alleges that Spokeo.com violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by collecting data from online and traditional…
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Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
Lee Tien and Seth Schoen comment: The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace” (NSTIC). In previous iterations, the project was known as the “National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions” and emphasized, reasonably, the private sector’s development of technologies to secure sensitive online transactions….
Apple responds to lawmakers’ questions about location data collection
David Sarno reports: Apple Inc. answered congressional questions about the ways it collects users’ precise location information from its mobile devices and computers, highlighting users’ ability to opt out of data collection, but acknowledging that it collects and stores “batched” user location data that is not directly associated with a particular identity or device. Apple’s…
Article of Note: The Boundaries of Privacy Harm
Ryan Calo has an article on SSRN that may provide food for thought for many readers. Calo, M. Ryan, The Boundaries of Privacy Harm (July 16, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1641487 Just as a burn is an injury caused by heat, so is privacy harm a unique injury with specific boundaries and characteristics. This Essay…