Women’s clothing retailer Talbots and its California marketing company have agreed to pay penalties totaling $161,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they illegally delivered prerecorded “robocalls” that failed to give consumers proper notice of their right to opt out of receiving telemarketing calls. Talbots operates stores in 587 locations in 47 states, the…
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IRS Policies Protect 1.2 Million Identity Thieves
Yesterday, I posted a link to a Treasury Department audit report that said that 1.2 million people had earned income using other people’s Social Security numbers, and then filed their returns using individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs) that often enable them to get tax refunds — even while they had stolen someone else’s SSN to…
Google goes transparent on Street View data collection
Jacqui Cheng reports: Google is attempting to clear the air on exactly what kind of data it collects when its Street View cars roll in front of your house, and how it uses that information. […] It’s the WiFi information that has gotten Google into trouble recently, with German officials asserting that this type of…
Google convictions in Italy based on legal error, says expert
The Italian court which sentenced three Google executives to a suspended jail term made a legal error, according to an Italian legal expert who has studied the judgment. Elvira Berlingieri told OUT-LAW that Google was likely to win any appeal. […] According to Berlingieri, the convictions are based on Google’s failure to notify users that…