It was another thought-provoking Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference this year, although it was held in the virtual environment. Law professors Daniel Solove and Chris Hoofnagle did an amazing job taking this annual event and trying to translate some of its best features into the virtual space. I did not manage to see everyone I usually…
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Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet use
Jonathan Stempel reports: Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode. Read more on Reuters. The case is Brown et al v Google LLC et al, U.S….
Other privacy news you may have missed this past week…
With so much understandable coverage of protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a now-former police officer, many of us didn’t keep up with a lot of other news last week. Here are some of the headlines that Joe Cadillic compiled for the week: 5 big EU countries blast Big Tech…
NYPD Union Doxes Mayor’s Daughter on Twitter
Dell Cameron reports: A New York City Police Department (NYPD) union known for its controversial attacks against Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted out the personally identifying information of his daughter on Sunday night, including a residential address and her New York State ID number. The tweet by the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA), which in February…