Privacy suit

• Thirteen individuals have filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen mobile app makers--including Path, Twitter, Apple, and Facebook--who were accused of automatically uploading user address books without permission. The suit, filed Monday in U.
(CNET News)
• The founder of UmeNow, Evelyn Castillo-Bach, announced today that she supports the federal class action lawsuit filed by a consortium of Texas attorneys who seek to protect the privacy rights of mobile App users nationwide.
(Consumer Electronics Net)
• EPIC suit rejected: On Friday, a court rejected the Electronic Privacy Information Center's suit to force the Federal Trade Commission to block Google's new privacy policy.
(Washington Post)
• A former police officer with St.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• CAESAREA, Israel, March 5 (UPI) -- The wife of Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has filed a libel and invasion of privacy suit against her former housekeeper, court records show.
(United Press International)
• A former prosecutor who was acquitted on obstruction charges wants a federal appeals court in Washington to restart his privacy suit against the U.S. Justice Department over allegations the government leaked information to a reporter. The U.S.
(The BLT: Blog of Legal Times)
• LAKEPORT -- The parties in the Rattlesnake Island lawsuit received a split decision of sorts from a Lake County judge Friday morning.
(Lake County Record Bee)
• Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and Apple, Foursquare and 13 other prominent social media firms have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of supplying mobile applications that invade users privacy has just shut up shop.
(The Register)