From the CNIL, the French data protection authority: SPARTOO is specialized in the online shoe sales sector. For this activity, it has a website accessible in thirteen countries of the European Union. The CNIL inspected the company in May 2018, and noted shortcomings concerning the data of customers, prospects and employees. The President of the CNIL therefore…
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Adam Schiff Accused of Protecting a Suspected FBI Surveillance Dragnet
Dell Cameron reports: Nearly a dozen civil liberties organizations have accused Congressman Adam Schiff and other Democratic leaders of purposely undermining the online privacy of U.S. citizens and immigrants; possibly in an effort, they say, to conceal the unlawful surveillance of Americans’ web browsing activity by the FBI’s national security branch. In a letter on Wednesday addressed…
TikTok Suits Over Children’s Privacy Combined in Illinois Court
Andrea Vittorio reports: TikTok faces 10 lawsuits alleging it collected data on children’s faces without parental approval in the Northern District of Illinois, after a judicial panel consolidated the cases there. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said in its order Tuesday it also may add an additional nine related lawsuits to the consumer class actions…
IMDb continues to refuse to remove fraudulent information on consumers; FTC complaint filed
In 2018, PogoWasRight.org blogged about a case involving a young person’s complaint about IMDb refusing to remove a page about him that contained fraudulent information about him. The page had been created by his friend when they were young teenagers, and contained his real name and location but fake movie credits. When Kenny sought its…