The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court, normally pro-business, has reversed a lower court ruling and said that the class action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus can go forward. Often, these suits are dismissed saying that plaintiffs haven’t experienced any harm since fraudulent credit card charges have been removed. This decision means that businesses hopes that class action […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not surprisingly, the fallout from the OPM breach continues. Here are a few new items in the news after OPM Director Archuletta was basically fired. The OPM has changed it’s privacy policy to allow investigators to probe it’s databases. This happened after the discovery of “significant entryways” for hackers in at least 3 more databases. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In documents filed in district court today, the FTC said that LifeLock failed to live up to it’s 2010 settlement with the FTC and asked the court to order full redress to all consumers affected. The 2010 settlement stemmed from the FTC complaining that LifeLock used false claims to sell it’s services (remember when their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: OPM said that 3.6 million of the 4.2 million people affected by the first breach were also in the casualty count of the second breach, so the total should be around 22 million instead of 25 million. However, they added 1.8 million fingerprints to the mix. OPM said that notifications for the second breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March I wrote about Max Schrems one man war against Facebook and their privacy-stealing policy (see post here). He originally went to the Irish data protection commissioner but withdrew that complaint after it became clear that nothing would get resolved in that venue for years. Then he went to the Vienna District Court saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IAPP published a summary of the hearings on Capitol Hill regarding the OPM breaches. The revelations certainly explain the mess, but also continues to raise the question about where Congress has been over the last 6 years. It is certainly OK to beat up OPM management, but I don’t see Congress taking any of the […]
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