John R. Ellement reports: The [Massachusetts] state Appeals Court asked lawmakers yesterday to take on complex legal questions now surfacing about anonymous sperm donors and the children conceived through science. In a ruling issued yesterday, the court refused to become involved in a Suffolk Probate and Family Court case in which the mother of twin…
Those unwanted terrifying emails were from…. Toyota?
Over on Courthouse News, Tim Hull reports that an advertising firm and Toyota are being sued because an advertising campaign terrorized an email recipient: A woman says a “terror marketing” campaign that Saatchi & Saatchi created for Toyota made her believe a drunken English soccer hooligan with a pit bull would show up at her…
Since when does a legal entity have “privacy” rights?
Kristen J. Mathews writes: Since when does a legal entity have “privacy” rights? Since the Third Circuit said so, in its September 22, 2009 decision in AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission (No. 084024). Most privacy practitioners would not consider a legal entity to have privacy rights. Rather, a legal entity may have trade secrets or…
EPIC: Echometrix gathers youth data for marketing
EPIC filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Echometrix, the developers of parental control software that monitors children’s online activity. Echometrix analyzes the information collected from children and sells the data to third parties for market-intelligence research. The EPIC complaint alleges that Echometrix engages in unfair and deceptive trade practices by representing that…