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…
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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…
Canada’s privacy commissioner scolds Staples, eHarmony
Jeff Davis reports: Staples Business Depot received a slap on the wrist from the federal privacy commissioner Tuesday for failing to protect customers’ personal information. The business-supplies company was found to have been selling used data storage devices — such as computers, hard drives and USB sticks — without first wiping them clean of data….