Facebook Hit With More Privacy Lawsuits

Facebook has been hit with two new potential class-action lawsuits stemming from recent re visions to its privacy settings.
The cases, filed recently in federal district court in San Jose, Calif. on behalf of nine Facebook users, allege that the new settings are “confusing and materially deceptive” and lessened their privacy.

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EU blasts Sweden over failure to store data on people’s phone calls, email…

EU blasts Sweden over failure to store data on people’s phone calls, email…

by Peter Vinthagen Simpson The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails.The European Union directive, known as the Data Retention Directive, was approved by Brussels in March 2006, but Sweden has yet to implement the measure.

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