Kathryn Cahoy of Covington and Burling writes: A California federal district court recently granted partial dismissal of privacy claims brought by several Google users in Rodriguez v. Google, LLC, No. 20-cv-5688 (N.D. Cal.). The Rodriguez plaintiffs claimed that Google engaged in unlawful wiretapping under section 631 of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) by collecting data from…
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NZ: Privacy Commissioner’s office looking into cleaning business’ photos posted online as ‘potential privacy breach’
RNZ reports: The Acting Privacy Commissioner is shocked by the graphic images posted by a trauma cleaning company and wants to hear from anyone who thinks the company has breached their privacy. Yesterday, RNZ revealed business Crime Scene Cleaners had been posting photos of scenes of suspected suicides, sudden deaths and assaults for nearly two…
Massachusetts high court expands social media privacy rights
Thomas F. Harrison reports: A man who was careless with his privacy settings and accepted an anonymous “friend request” from someone who turned out to be an undercover cop became the unlikely catalyst Monday for a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision that expands the privacy rights of social media users. Writing for the unanimous court,…
Health Sites Let Ads Track Visitors Without Telling Them
Lily Hay Newman reports: ALL TOO OFTEN, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of several digital-medicine and genetic-testing companies, whose sites used ad-tracking tools that could have exposed information about people’s health status. In a recent study from researchers at Duke University and the…