Elizabeth George reports: While Playstation players are still waiting to be able to use Discord on PS5, the famous VoIP service has just had its suspenders lifted by the CNIL. Indeed, the National Commission for Computing and Freedoms announced this Thursday, November 17 that it had imposed a fine of €800,000 on [Read More…]
Ron Amadeo reports: Google has settled a privacy lawsuit with a coalition of 40 state attorneys general today. Google agreed to pay $391.5 million for misleading Location History settings the company was running from 2014-2020. Google’s Location History settings have gotten it in trouble with several regulatory bodies. The action began after [Read More…]
Mary Ashley Salvino writes: If the Federal Trade Commission were a major league baseball team, it might be fair to view 2022 as a rebuilding year regarding its privacy enforcement authority. 2023, on the other hand, might just be the season that marks the FTC’s long-awaited return to a privacy [Read More…]
FourthAmendment.com informs us: A request for a court order for drone surveillance over a home requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. A request under the All Writs Act isn’t the way to do it. In re Application of the United States For An Order Authorizing Small Unmanned Aircraft Sys. [Read More…]