Venkat Balasubramani writes: Low brought a putative class action against LinkedIn, complaining about the fact that LinkedIn “allows transmission of users’ personally identifiable browsing history and other personal information to third parties, including advertisers, marketing companies, data brokers, and web tracking companies . . . ” He asserted a variety of different claims, including under…
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Privacy Dies at a Burger King
“No expectation of privacy in public.” How often have we hard that phrase? But does that mean it’s really okay to tweet everything you hear a feuding couple say to each other? David Pell writes: … [Andy] Boyle was at a Burger King when a young married couple at a nearby table had an argument. The…
New York Times Writer Loses Bid for FBI Data
Now what did Candidate Obama pledge about transparency? Adam Klasfeld reports: The FBI can shield its terrorism-investigation data from the prying eyes of New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage, a federal judge ruled. Savage repeatedly sought FBI data through the Freedom of Information Act for a series of articles exposing how federal authorities vigorously…
Judge Rules Feds Can Have WikiLeaks Associates’ Twitter Data (updated)
Kevin Poulsen reports the expected, but bad nevertheless, news: The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to prosecutors in a routine records demand that turned into a fierce court battle over online privacy and free…