Jamie Ross reports: A $6.8 million settlement has been reached to a 2000 class action alleging that United Artists Theatre Circuit and American Blast Fax sent unsolicited faxes for movie tickets to between 57,000 and 95,000 fax numbers in Phoenix. The lawsuit, filed in May 2000 in Maricopa County Court, claimed that the defendants’ faxes…
Category: Laws
Amazon Silk already generating privacy concerns
Lucian Constantin reports that Amazon Silk, a cloud-based browser developed by Amazon to support its new Kindle Fire tablet, is raising privacy concerns. Although there is non-cloud option that would not share data with Amazon, the default settings do, and users’ data might be subject to access by the government under provisions of the PATRIOT…
Does Gove’s webmail policy breach Data Protection Act too?
Amberhawk Training writes: Does the use of Gmail or Hotmail by a Minister’s Private Office (in order to evade Freedom of Information (FOI) obligations) also lead to breaches in the Data Protection Act? Well, I can see how this could be the case. The press has raised this issue only in the context of FOI….
Illinois Eavesdropping Act Shields Public Officials From Public Scrutiny
Jacob Sullivan comments on an a On Jan. 13, 2009, Michael Allison brought a digital recorder to the Crawford County Courthouse in Robinson, Ill., where he was contesting a citation, because he had been told there would be no official transcript of the proceedings. He was immediately confronted by Judge Kimbara Harrell, who accused him…