Wendy Davis reports: Google can’t shake a privacy lawsuit alleging that it unlawfully scans Gmail messages. In a ruling issued late last week, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District of California ruled that people who are suing Google can proceed even without proof of financial injury. […] The ruling stems from…
Month: September 2016
North Jersey school installs fingerprint readers
Administrators at a North Jersey school have calmed privacy concerns after a school in Englewood started using biometric readers to authenticate meal payments. The school installed the reader after abuse of a card system, with pupils that were permitted free meals swiping in for their friends. Parents have said at a local meeting that there hasn’t…
AU: Brandis to criminalise re-identifying anonymous data under Privacy Act
Corinne Reichert reports: Australian Attorney-General George Brandis has said the government will introduce legislation to amend the Privacy Act for the purposes of protecting anonymised datasets that are collected and published by the Commonwealth. Claiming that the “privacy of citizens is of paramount importance” to the government, Brandis said the amendment, which will be introduced in the…
Alabama ABC Board rejects rule requiring beer buyers personal information
Will Robinson-Smith reports: For taprooms like Old Black Bear, the customer always comes first. So the idea of creating an extra burden for them at the register didn’t seem right. “Just seemed like too much of a burden for them not to at least discuss it with somebody first to try and get our side…