An actress who sued Amazon’s website IMDb for disclosing her age and her real Asian name has identified herself after a federal judge refused to allow her anonymous complaint.
A woman who received a $132 speeding ticket has filed a lawsuit claiming the officer violated her privacy by using her personal information to track down her car and attach…
A new Facebook feature this year that allows an advertiser to broadcast a user’s “like” of its product to others in that individual’s circle is being challenged in California.
Former Bulls basketball star Scottie Pippen claims in a lawsuit that his net worth is at least $40 million—and website reports to the contrary have defamed him.
In at least the third would-be class action filed since technology blogger Trevor Eckhart last month reported that smartphones are providing carriers with private information about individual…
Top editors at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World knew their reporters were hacking phones in search of stories, a former reporter there says.
In an example of how cutting-edge technology apparently may be far ahead of lawmakers, PC Magazine is reporting that at least two U.S. shopping malls, in California…
Police in Washington, D.C., and its suburbs are using more than 250 cameras to scan license plates, and in D.C. they’re holding on to the information for three years.
The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering a proposed settlement that would require Facebook to get consent from its users before making “material retroactive changes” to its privacy policy.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., today ruled that three individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their Twitter accounts because they agreed, by clicking, to boilerplate terms of…