Nicholas Iovino reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Facebook’s last-ditch effort to derail a $35 billion class action claiming the company harvested millions of users’ facial data without consent. ) The Supreme Court’s denial means a trial initially scheduled to start in July 2018 will soon be placed back [Read More…]
Janet Rae-Dupree January 22, 2020 Medical professionals have been storing personal health information in electronic form for more than a decade, but it is cumbersome for patients to gather disparate computer and paper records scattered across doctors’ offices, hospitals and medical labs. Wouldn’t life be easier if you could view [Read More…]
Kelvin Chan of AP reports: Social media sites, games and other online services won’t be allowed to “nudge” British kids into revealing personal details or lowering their privacy settings, under tough new rules drawn up by the country’s privacy regulator. The set of standards aimed at protecting children’s online privacy [Read More…]
Sebastian Murphy-Bates reports: Police caught a crossbow killer using tracking data from a stolen Land Rover after he shot a retired lecturer in the stomach with a high-powered bolt, a murder trial has hear. […] Whall told police the vehicle had been stolen but investigations into the car’s movements, recored [Read More…]