Tag Archives: Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Prevails in Credit Card Class Battle Over Practice of Collecting Addresses and Phone Numbers

By BakerHostetler on October 8, 2013 Posted in Privacy Class Actions

Authored by: Julian Perlman Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. In a victory for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a federal district court judge has refused to certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class in a lawsuit for violation of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1747 et seq., … Continue Reading

Harnessing “Big Data” to Create Value

By Craig A. Hoffman on June 2, 2011 Posted in Behavioral Advertising, Mobile Privacy

In the wake of the recent breaches at Epsilon and Sony and the scrutiny Apple and Google are facing for their geolocation data tracking practices, there has been little media focus on the benefits of data collection and analysis. Indeed, most of the coverage has been trained on proposed legislation and new regulations that would … Continue Reading