From BigBrotherWatch writes: For the first time, Big Brother Watch has uncovered the true extent to which Police abuse their access to confidential databases. This report follows allegations yesterday that former Downing Street Head of Communications Andy Coulson paid the Police in order to receive privilegedinformation. Between 2007 and 2010: 243 Police officers and staff received criminal convictions for…
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Coulson arrested, News of the World to close – double wow!
Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World tabloid and former spokesperson for Prime Minister David Cameron has been arrested this morning over the explosive phone-hacking scandal in the UK. And in related news, Rupert Murdoch announced that he is shutting down News of the World this week. Talk about an organization experiencing…
Lawsuit Over Google WiFi Data Breach Will Move Ahead
Joe Mullin reports: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) apologized long ago for the accidental collection of personal WiFi data by its Street View cars, but the snafu continues to produce headaches for the company. Now a San Jose federal judge has refused to throw out a class-action lawsuit against Google arguing that the data breach violated federal…
Emotional Injury as Privacy Harm
William McGeveran writes: Perhaps lost in all the understandable attention to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the Wal-Mart class action case, the Court also granted cert. in a potentially significant privacy law case, FAA v. Cooper. SCOTUSBlog has collected the documents in the case here. The formal question presented in the case is: Whether a plaintiff who alleges only…