Lastly, this act would grant power to both residents and prosecutors to file civil
lawsuits after a data breach.
Not exact matches
We caught up with Carroll
after his on panel and asked about his
lawsuit, what the Cambridge Analytica story means for marketers and whether advertisers are putting too much faith in the
data they gather.
One
lawsuit filed yesterday in Northern California on behalf of a Facebook shareholder, Jeremiah Hallisey, alleges the company's senior management «breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prevent the initial misappropriation [of user
data by CA] and,
after learning of it in 2015, failing to inform affected Facebook users or the public markets».
The disclosure came
after a trio of institutional shareholders filed a
lawsuit Tuesday seeking the release of the voting
data.
Last week, credit giant Equifax,
after suffering a massive
data breach, drew public fury for offering consumers an identity theft monitoring service — but only if they signed away their right to join class action
lawsuits against the company.
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The
lawsuit spawned from the fact that
after Frontier attempted to find out what the real sales
data was like from Atari's own books, the company delayed when attempting to have an audit done on the sales reports.
A new study by MLex uses Lex Machina
data to show that more and more district courts are granting attorneys fees requests: Nearly six months
after the US Supreme Court made it easier to award attorneys» fees in «exceptional» patent cases, US district court judges are increasingly sanctioning parties for filing frivolous
lawsuits or engaging in litigation misconduct — except in the most popular place to file a patent suit: the Eastern District of Texas.
One
lawsuit filed yesterday in Northern California on behalf of a Facebook shareholder, Jeremiah Hallisey, alleges the company's senior management «breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prevent the initial misappropriation [of user
data by CA] and,
after learning of it in 2015, failing to inform affected Facebook users or the public markets».
One
lawsuit was filed by a Facebook user who claims the Menlo Park company acted with «absolute disregard» for her personal information
after allegedly representing that it wouldn't disclose the
data without permission or notice.
The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, several hours
after Facebook was blamed in a shareholder
lawsuit filed in nearby San Francisco for the drop in its stock price
after the
data harvesting was revealed.
TACD accuses Facebook of effectively trying to resurrect an overreaching
data - gathering process that was killed off by angry Facebook users some seven years ago,
after they brought a class action
lawsuit against the company for privacy violations based on spying on what they were doing elsewhere on the web.
Price sued Tuesday, not long
after another
lawsuit was filed on behalf of Facebook investors seeking to recoup losses suffered when the stock price fell on reports of the research firm's use of the
data.
After it was revealed that a firm of political consultants carried out a
data - harvesting exercise disguised as a personality quiz, the latest developments include a
lawsuit and a Mozilla - led petition for privacy changes to the app...
govinfosecurity.com - A class action
lawsuit is seeking millions of dollars in damages for plaintiffs
after yet another mailing - related health
data breach involving sensitive HIV - related
The development comes shortly
after the company was hit with a number of other privacy - related
lawsuits following a widely reported scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica which harvested
data of some 50 million Facebook users in 2014, having been accused by a whistleblower of leveraging that information to assist the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election in the U.S..