Seattle, Washington—On Tuesday, April 28, at 9 am, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn will ask a federal appeals court to embrace the public’s First Amendment right to access judicial records and unseal a lower court’s ruling denying a government effort to force Facebook to break the…
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Judge Warns Facebook in Approving Record $5B Fine for Alleged Privacy Violations
And in other Faceb00k privacy litigation this week, Jacqueline Thomsen reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., signed off on a record $5 billion fine imposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Facebook for allegedly violating federal law and a previous order with its privacy practices. In an opinion issued Thursday night, U.S. District Judge Timothy…
IN: Kerala HC Restrains Sprinklr From Breaching Data Confidentiality; Govt Directed To Anonymize Data & Take Informed Consent
The High Court of Kerala on Friday passed a slew of directions to address the concerns of data confidentiality over the controversial Sprinklr deal to process data related to COVID-19 cases in Kerala. Read more on LiveLaw
From Revenge Porn to Big Data Breaches: NSW Opposition Introduces Bill to Redress “Serious Invasions of Privacy”
Cameron Abbott, Christien Corns, Rebecca Gill, and Rob Pulham of K&L Gates write: There is a common misconception that Australian residents enjoy a general “right to privacy”. Many people understandably believe that if they are, for example, eating lunch at a restaurant minding their own business, it would be “unlawful” for someone to take photos…