Emily Steel and Jessica E. Vascellaro report: Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers’ names and other personal details, despite promises they don’t share such information without consent. The practice, which most of the companies defended, sent user names or ID…
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NYCLU Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges NYPD’s Practice of Keeping Innocent New Yorkers in Stop-and-Frisk Database
The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s practice of keeping the personal information of innocent New Yorkers who have been stopped and frisked by police officers in an electronic police database that the department uses for criminal investigations. “Innocent New Yorkers who are the victims of unjustified police…
Judge Shields Identity of Online Critic Facing Baseless Lawsuit
EFF issued the following press release: A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of Pennsylvania corporation USA Technologies after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) successfully argued that the First Amendment shields the identity of anonymous speakers who engage in lawful speech. “All too frequently,…
Class action lawsuit over Google wi-fi data collection filed
Karina Brown reports on what is likely to be only one of many lawsuits filed over Google’s revelation that it inadvertently collected personal information during its Street View operations: In Portland, lead plaintiff Vicki Van Valin claims Google operates vehicles mounted with “wireless sniffers” that decode Wi-Fi data. She claims Google captured and decoded her…