Two defendants in a case involving a massive “scareware” scheme will settle Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive advertising and forfeit more than $100,000 in assets that were frozen last year at the Commission’s request. The two settling defendants were part of a massive deceptive advertising scheme that tricked more than a million consumers into…
Clear may sell customer data
Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else’s hands, but only if it goes to a similar provider, authorized by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. “They had your social security information, credit information, where you lived,…
SCOTUS: Strip search of AZ teen illegal
In an important ruling on the rights of students, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that the Safford Unified School District’s strip search of a middle school teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal. In its 8-1 ruling with Justice Clarence Thomas as the lone dissenter on the main question, the justices held…
No retrial in Pirate Bay case
Sweden’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the judge in the high profile Pirate Bay case was not biased, as has been claimed by lawyers representing the men behind the popular file sharing site. The appeals court judgment means that the case will not be reheard at Stockholm District Court. “We have reached the…