Privacy and Surveillance
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Vimeo Inc. is creating and storing “face templates” from videos and photos uploaded by users of an image-editing application without obtaining their consent, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois state court Friday.. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay $4.35 million to resolve claims it divulged the protected health information of 6,000 Ohio residents by mailing letters in envelopes with windows that revealed names and references to HIV diagnoses, according to Tuesday federal court filings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal court on Thursday kept alive a proposed class action claiming Facebook scooped up Android users’ call and text logs without permission and then sold the data to advertisers, but the judge warned that the users don’t have a “guaranteed path to victory”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Facebook Inc. and the D.C. attorney general’s office on Friday released documents that show the social media giant’s employees were raising concerns about “sketchy” Cambridge Analytica months before Facebook has said it found out about the political consulting firm’s data-harvesting scandal… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Apple Inc. was hit with a privacy suit on Wednesday in California federal court following media reporting last month that the tech giant had recorded users of devices equipped with the Siri voice recognition application without their consent… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 