Noelle McElhatton reports: A leading EU data protection official has given US President Barack Obama’s administration a mixed review for its record on protecting data privacy. European data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx was speaking at a data protection conference in Washington this week. A report on the Europolitics website said Hustinx praised the US Federal…
Database anonymity at risk, warns researcher
From Out-Law.com: Increasing amounts of personal information are collected by organisations and stored in massive databases. That information is sometimes used or released after being stripped of elements that could identify individuals in a process called ‘anonymisation’. University of Colorado Law School Associate Professor Paul Ohm, though, has said that the techniques used no longer…
Pre-Paid Legal Services reveals it may be sued by FTC -updated
Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc. issued a press release today indicating that it may be sued by the Federal Trade Commission over its Identity Theft Shield and Affirmative Defense Response System (“ADRS”) Program: Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (NYSE: PPD) announced that on November 18, 2009, we received a proposed draft complaint from the Federal Trade Commission…
Lawsuit: Use of rival’s name as keyword invades privacy
Dinesh Ramde of Associated Press reports on a lawsuit in Wisconsin that makes an intriguing legal argument. The law firm of Habush, Habush, & Rottier is suing rival law firm Cannon & Dunphy for buying the words “Habush” and “Rottier” from Google for keywords. Habush argues that by purchasing the keywords, a sponsored link for…