From the Dutch Data Protection Authority: Netflix did not give customers sufficient information about what the company does with their personal data between 2018 and 2020. And the information that Netflix did give was unclear on some points. For this reason, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) is imposing a fine of 4.75 million…
Erica Gann Kitaev of BakerHostetler has a recap of some privacy lawsuits in 2012: During 2012, privacy class actions continued to trend toward two major categories: 1) actions that arose out of a data breach event and 2) actions brought to prosecute an alleged consumer privacy right. Read her recap here.
Natasha Singer writes: Time to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and your medical records have in common? How about a potentially false sense of control over who can see your user history? While Netflix and some health care concerns say they…
Paul Ohm, who has highlighted the problems with supposedly anonymized data, has published a forceful commentary on Netflix’s recent announcement of their new contest. Ohm writes, in part: Although I give Netflix a pass for its past privacy breach, I am astonished to learn from the New York Times that the company plans a second…