Google to Pay District of Columbia $9.5M for Location Tracking, Privacy Violations January 4, 2023 District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine, in one of his last steps before leaving office, announced that Google...
Maine Privacy Law Survives Challenge by Internet Service Providers September 8, 2022 By Patrick Whittle One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of...
Twitter Will Pay $150M to Settle With U.S. Over Data Privacy Violations May 26, 2022 By Diane Bartz and Katie Paul Twitter Inc. has agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations it misused private information, like phone numbers, to target...
Texas AG Lawsuit Claims Google ‘Private Browsing’ Mode Not Really Private May 20, 2022 By David Shepardson The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing”...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Advance Internet Data Privacy Bill February 7, 2022 By Steve LeBlanc A bill that would grant Massachusetts residents what supporters describe as fundamental internet privacy rights — including greater control over...
Facebook Says It’s Removing Facial Recognition System November 3, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford and Sheila Dang Facebook Inc. announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and...
Lawmakers Urged to Protect Data in Cloud Like Other Personal Data July 1, 2021 By Raphael Satter The United States needs to accord the same legal protections to user data held on tech companies’ servers as it...
Supreme Court Nixes Facebook Bid to Curtail $15B Class Action Over User Tracking March 22, 2021 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc.’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit...
$5 Billion Lawsuit Accuses Google of Tracking Users’ Private Internet Activity June 3, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy...
Senators Seek to Address Privacy Concerns Over Tech Firms’ Covid-19 Contact Tracing May 4, 2020 By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson A group of Republican U.S. senators said Thursday they would introduce legislation to address consumer privacy concerns surrounding technology companies’...