Yes, this is the third celebrity-related privacy news story I’m posting this morning, which may be some kind of record for a site that generally avoids celebrity news unless it raises important privacy questions. But read on, as I think this one does… Phone-hacking victim Sienna Miller accused her mother of leaking stories to the…
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Koh Dismisses Privacy Complaints Against Apple, App Makers
Amy Miller reports: A federal judge in San Jose has dismissed a group of consolidated privacy class actions that claimed that Apple Inc. and eight other defendants let advertisers track mobile device users’ activity without permission. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh granted the motions to dismiss Tuesday, with leave to amend, finding that plaintiffs didn’t…
OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit
Jonathan Zdziarski writes: I canceled the OnStar subscription on my new GMC vehicle today after receiving an email from the company about their new terms and conditions. While most people, I imagine, would hit the delete button when receiving something as exciting as new terms and conditions, being the nerd sort, I decided to have…
NY: GPS used to track fired state worker raises privacy issue
Rick Karlin reports: How far can state government go in keeping tabs on its employees? That’s the question a mid-level appeals court will consider in the wake of a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union against the state Labor Department, in the case of a fired state worker who was tracked with…