Phillip Ng writes: The Federal Privacy Commissioner has released several further case notes this month dealing with complaints received by the Commissioner and other investigations concerning private organisations and government agencies. The four case notes Ng summarizes are: Case 1: Consent to disclosure of personal information Case 2: Direct marketing Case 3: Default credit listing…
Month: May 2010
Reviving the Fourth Amendment and American Privacy
Jay Stanley of the ACLU blogs: I started working on privacy issues for the ACLU about five weeks before 9/11. What a wild ride it’s been for privacy since that terrible day. The privacy rights of Americans have come under a sustained assault that would have been hard to imagine in the languid days of…
L. Merion, insurance firm spar over webcam costs
John P. Martin reports: The Lower Merion School District argued Friday that the district’s insurer should pay what could be a million-dollar tab to resolve a lawsuit over its now-disabled laptop tracking program. In a counterclaim filed in federal court, attorneys for the district also accused Graphics Arts Mutual Insurance of New York of breaching…
Web photos of woman with HIV prompt lawsuit
Eric Frazier reports: An HIV-positive Union County woman let a drug company take pictures of her for an HIV patients’ magazine, but was shocked to later find the pictures and details about her situation had been published on the Internet – without her permission, she says. The woman filed suit in federal court in Charlotte…