Collaborate Disseminate
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says. Continue reading Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients. Continue reading Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK
Can AT&T be held liable for identity theft resulting from SIM swapping? In June 2017, Michael Terpin, a prominent cryptocurrency trader from Puerto Rico, turned on his cell phone and found it didn’t work. Apparently, hackers had gone to various AT… Continue reading SIM Swap Crypto Lawsuit Goes Forward in Los Angeles
Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws. Continue reading Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks
A court has forced Google to reveal the details of an anonymous poster who published an unpalatable review of a dentist. Continue reading Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details
A class action lawsuit was filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against two hospitals for what plaintiffs are calling “reckless and negligent violation of patient privacy rights” in light of alleged ransomware attacks that hit the hospitals last year. The alleged ransomware attacks, which took place in February last year at the Pavía Hospital Santurce and Pavía Hospital Hato Rey hospitals, affected 305,737 people, according to Department of Health and Human Services records. The plaintiffs, both former patients of the hospitals, allege patients’ personal identifying information, including full names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, financial information, and social security numbers, were exposed as a result of the attacks. These records also constitute protected health information as designated by HIPAA. “These patients reasonably expect the highest level of protection for their private identifiable information, when giving highly sensitive information such as their Social Security […]
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It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does. Continue reading Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook for the use of its tag suggestions feature looks like it’s finally done churning through the courts. Continue reading Facebook to pay $550m to settle face-tagging suit
The government has flip-flopped, most recently proposing rules that would transfer regulation out of the hands of the State Department. Continue reading States sue over rules that allow release of 3D-printed gun blueprints
A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs. Continue reading Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints