Thursday, November 6, 2014

STD dating website fined $16.5m in privacy case

An internet dating site for users with sexually transmitted diseases has been ordered to pay $16.5 million in damages in a privacy case. The plaintiff, in the case- known only as John Doe, argued that PositiveSingles.com and parent company Successful Match mined and shared users' personal information, including photographs, and distributed them on its subsidiary.