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01
2019
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in Frank v. Gaos, a class action settlement that provided no benefit to Internet users. Google disclosed user search histories to third parties without consent, a practice that could violate federal and state privacy laws. But under the terms of the settlement, Google “will not be required or requested to make any changes” to its business practices. Also, no funds were provided to the Internet users on whose behalf the case was brought. . . .
A federal appeals court narrowly approved the settlement, 2-1, with the dissenting judge warning that courts must be on the lookout “not only for explicit collusion, but also for more subtle signs that class counsel have allowed pursuit of their own self-interests.”
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Categories : Data Marketplace, Data Mining, Judicial/Court/Trial, Privacy
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01
2019
The Washington Post
Nov 11, 2018
Apps marketed to children 5 and younger deploy potentially manipulating tactics to deliver ads to children, raising questions about the ethics of child software design and consumer protection, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital looked at more than 100 apps, mostly from the Google Play Store, and found that nearly all of them had at least one type of ad, often interwoven into the apps’ activities and games. The apps, according to the researchers, used a variety of ways to deliver ads to children, including: using commercial characters, pop-up ads, in-app purchases and, in some cases, distracting ads, hidden ads or ads that were posed as gameplay items.
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Categories : Data Mining, FIP 1: No secret collections, FIP 2: Discover, FIP 3: One use, FTC, Privacy, Terms of Service
14
01
2019
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Friday in a case about the 2015 data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel and Management, which affected 22 million federal employees, their friends, and their family members. EPIC filed an amicus brief in the case, joined by forty-four technical experts and legal scholars (members of the EPIC Advisory Board). In the brief, EPIC said that “when personal data is collected by a government agency, that agency has a constitutional obligation to protect the personal data it has obtained.” In the 2011 case NASA v. Nelson, EPIC urged the Supreme Court to limit data collection by federal agencies, citing the growing risk of data breach in the federal government.
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Categories : Constitutional law, FIP 5: Protect the data you have, Judicial/Court/Trial, Privacy
14
01
2019
New Hampshire voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that guarantees a constitutional right to information privacy in the state. The measure, which received 80% of the vote, amends Article 2 in the New Hampshire Bill of Rights providing that “an individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.” New Hampshire joins a growing number of states with constitutional privacy protections. EPIC Advisory Board member David Flaherty has written about the development of constitutional privacy protections. EPIC regularly files amicus briefs supporting state privacy rights. In a recent amicus brief concerning the OPM data breach, EPIC argued that the right to information privacy exists in the federal Constitution.
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14
01
2019
The Washington Post
Originally published November 27, 2018 at 3:06 pm Updated November 27, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Facebook and Twitter are taking action against an automated babysitter-rating system reported on last weekby The Washington Post, saying the service broke the social networks’ rules on user surveillance and data privacy.
Predictim, a California-based start-up, analyzes babysitters’ online histories, including on Facebook and Twitter, and offers ratings of whether they are at risk of drug abuse, bullying or having a “bad attitude.” . . .
Predictim’s chief said the company was undeterred by the restrictions: “If you’re not hiding anything, if you’re not abusive, if you’re not a bully, I don’t see why you’d be scared.”
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01
2019
New Media Law Blog
Jeffrey Neuburger
Nov. 28, 2018
On November 20, 2018, the Illinois Supreme Court heard oral argument on whether a company’s technical violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) is sufficient to confer standing or whether a plaintiff must allege actual harm resulted from the violation. (Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. et al., No. 123186) (prior decision). The Court’s forthcoming decision will have significant implications for Illinois employers and businesses given the enormous wave of BIPA class actions. [Please see our posts here and here for background on BIPA developments].
Read the full post about the Illinois Supreme Court argument on our Law and the Workplace blog.
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01
2019
Tim Romm & Craig Timberg
Dec. 10, 2018
Washington Post
Google revealed Monday that its soon-to-be shuttered social network suffered from another security lapse, a software bug that could have allowed third-party apps and developers to gain access to 52 million users’ personal information without their permission.
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01
2019
By Tony Romm | The Washington Post
Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including images that people began uploading to the site but didn’t post publicly.
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13
01
2019
In a surprisingly brief opinion, the Ninth Circuit has upheld a decision to dismiss a privacy suit against Facebook concerning the collection of sensitive medical data. In Smith v. Facebook, users alleged that the company tracked their visits to healthcare websites, in violation of the websites’ explicit privacy policies. In a little less than five pages, the Ninth Circuit decided that Facebook was not bound by the promises made not to disclose users’ data to Facebook because Facebook has a provision, buried deep in its own policy, that allows Facebook to secretly collect such data. The court actually wrote that searches for medical information are not sensitive because the “data show only that Plaintiffs searched and viewed publicly available health information…”
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01
2019
The Department of Homeland Security released the 2017 Annual Data Mining Report. According to the report, Customs and Border Protection expanded the use of Automated Targeting System’s risk assessments to TSA’s Secure Flight passenger data. TSA uses the Secure Flight data to compare airline passenger records against various watch lists and to score air travellers. The report describes the use of biometric data to match and screen individuals applying for immigration benefits against other databases.
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