Given the recent kerfuffle about Experian not doing its due diligence about a Court Ventures client (covered on DataBreaches.net), I thought this report on a class action settlement was interesting: On Tuesday, a California federal judge preliminarily approved an $8 million class action settlement that would resolve claims that Experian Information Solutions Inc. illegally disclosed…
Month: April 2014
State Justices Say Telephones Exempt From Wiretap Act
Zack Needles reports: Holding that telephones are expressly exempt from the devices prohibited by the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act regardless of how they’re used, the state Supreme Court has ruled that a state trooper did not violate the act when he instructed an informant to set up a drug deal with the…
NSA launches ‘lablets’ tech initiative with major U.S. universities
Richard Byrne Reilly reports: The National Security Agency is coming to a university near you. The agency has launched an initiative to strengthen contacts between tech-heavy U.S. American colleges and universities. The project will coordinate academic collaboration to best protect Internet infrastructure. Already, the NSA has awarded funds and resources to Carnegie Mellon University, the University…
Judge Splits Difference in Hulu Privacy Case
Nick McCann reports: Hulu may have illegally disclosed viewer data via Facebook “likes,” a federal magistrate judge ruled in an ongoing class action. Joseph Garvey is lead plaintiff in “Hulu Privacy Litigation” which claims Hulu “repurposed” its browser cache to let marketing-analysis services store users’ private data. Read more on Courthouse News. See also MediaPost‘s…