Apple is urging a federal judge to shut down a false advertising class action brought by iPhone and iPad users who say they were duped into believing that phones would protect their privacy. The company’s request, filed late last week, is the latest development in long-running litigation over allegations that Twitter, Yelp and other app developers uploaded people’s address books. The dispute …
It’s been a mystery for months. Students and staff at Nichols Junior High in Arlington have been saying that something in the school has been making them sick: Now, the Arlington NAACP has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to shutter the school until the district can provide answers. “It’s a human rights and a civil rights issue,” says …
Apple wants a federal appellate court to overturn a recent decision granting class-action status to a group of mobile users who say their address books were accessed without permission by the app developer Path. In papers quietly filed late last month, the company asks the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to immediately appeal the “manifestly erroneous” order that granted class- …
When a paper was retracted earlier this year with an opaque notice, we set out to figure out why. We’re still not entirely clear of the reason, but we’ve uncovered one aspect of the paper that raised objections from another researcher: The paper, on internet trolling, included an email he sent without his permission. The retraction sparked our interest, both because of the journal’s opaque …
I get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer up data they’ve come across in various locations. Recently someone sent me a list of various data breaches they’d obtained, including this one: …