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In United States v. Jones, a Fourth Amendment case pertaining to government surveillance, the U.S. Supreme Court on January 23, 2012, held that the government’s installation of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle without the appropriate warrant, and the government’s use of that device to monitor that vehicle’s movement, constituted a search
In the final days of its last term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Vermont’s Prescription Confidentiality Act, which restricted data mining of physician prescriber records for drug marketing purposes
In a case with major implications for retailers and marketers, the Supreme Court of California ruled on February 10, 2011, that the state's Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 ("Song-Beverly Act") prohibits businesses from requesting and recording ZIP codes from consumers prior to credit card transactions, including requests for use in marketing
Four lawsuits, at present count, have been filed against Apple and some of its application ("app") developers alleging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and state statutes based on app functionalities that shared consumers' personal information with advertisers
