May 29, 2020 Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings Maps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it's consumer fraud. Naked Security
May 28, 2020 Pablo Escobar’s brother sues Apple for $2.6b over FaceTime flaw Roberto Escobar says a FaceTime eavesdropping bug led to his address being leaked, assassination threats, and being forced into hiding. Naked Security
May 11, 2020 Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies … nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois. Naked Security
April 07, 2020 Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics The suit is about biometrics and children's privacy in Google's education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19. Naked Security
March 18, 2020 Uber to file federal suit against LA over users’ real-time location data Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn't good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it's good for is surveillance. Naked Security
March 13, 2020 Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says. Naked Security
March 05, 2020 Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack It's charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says. Naked Security
March 02, 2020 Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients. Naked Security
February 25, 2020 Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico's AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA's child privacy laws. Naked Security