Jared Gans reports: Google has agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle separate lawsuits with Washington, D.C., and Indiana over its location tracking practices. Under the settlements, Google agreed to not make misrepresentations to users about an individual user’s location information in location history and web and app activity. Read more at…
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Eileen Guo reports: In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet. In one particularly revealing shot, a young…
High School Students Can Be Disciplined for Racist Private Instagram Account–Chen v. Albany School District
Eric Goldman writes: The Supreme Court’s Mahanoy decision left many issues for the lower courts to resolve about when schools can discipline students for social media posts. This opinion from the Ninth Circuit starts to fill in some of the gaps. The case involves several Albany High students, including Epple and Chen. In 2016, Epple created a…
Ninth Circuit revives children’s suit against Google over surreptitious tracking
Edvard Pettersson reports: Google must face a purported class-action lawsuit by children who claimed they were tracked and profiled for targeted ads without their parents’ consent while watching YouTube videos. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a judge’s dismissal of the children’s claims brought under various state laws because, the appellate panel said, the…