Rob Copeland reports: Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on a secret project to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears [Read More…]
Maryam Casbarro of Davis Wright Tremaine has a litigation update in the firm’s monthly newsletter. The article begins: A group of plaintiffs has accused Vimeo of “collecting, storing, and using [plaintiffs’] biometric identifiers and biometric information [sic] without informed written consent, in direct violation of” the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). [Read More…]
Vindu Goel and Nicole Perlroth report: Bela Bhatia, a human rights lawyer in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is accustomed to surveillance. She works in a region prone to both guerrilla violence and government reprisals, and the authorities do not like many of her clients. Still, Ms. Bhatia said she [Read More…]
From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California: SAN FRANCISCO –Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi, a/k/a Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in fraudulently accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom of [Read More…]