A well-known Cincinnati lawyer is among the defendants in two federal privacy lawsuits filed by a woman and her online friend claiming the attorney intended to use secret surveillance in…
The smarter the phone, the smarter you’d better be—or at least knowledgeable and vigilant. That’s the takeaway from a new report out of the Pew Research Center…
It isn’t just individuals who can find companies’ privacy and data security policies confusing. Companies themselves don’t always follow their own rules for protecting user information.
A federal judge in San Francisco has refused to approve a settlement that doesn’t award any money to class members in a suit over a Facebook advertising feature that published…
Tracking a user’s cellphone location without a warrant using GPS technology is different than putting a GPS tracking device on a motorist’s vehicle without a warrant, a federal appeals court…
In a case that the court said “reads like a telenovela, a Spanish soap opera,” a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Spanish-language celebrity gossip…
For the first time in 12 years of surveying general counsel and corporate directors of public companies, data from the “Law and the Boardroom Study” show that data security is…
Ten women who reportedly agreed to let a St. Louis plastic surgeon put before-and-after photos of their augmented breasts on the Internet are now suing in federal court there, contending…
A federal judge in Florida says a contractor hired by the city of Tallahassee must disclose red-light-camera traffic ticket information to a newspaper that requested it, despite an arguable conflict…
A longtime Connecticut prosecutor accused of creating a hostile work environment for female colleagues and court workers by secretly videotaping their legs with a “spy pen” in and around court…
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