If you ask me, this is the Mother Of All Privacy Violations. My tax return data? The IRS has proposed a rule to allow the tax preparation industry to disclose Joe American’s tax return information, collected while preparing returns for consumers, to third parties. Of course, this is only after they have received your “consent.” [...]

A federal trial court in Chicago ruled that the ancient legal doctrine of trespass to chattels (trespassing on personal property, rather than on someone’s land or real estate) may potentially apply to spyware on your computer. The Chicago Lawsuit In Sotelo v. DirectRevenue, the computer owner filed a complaint against various companies alleging that they [...]