The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a privacy case against a division of Thomson Reuters Corp. on whether it can collect and sell information on drivers provided by state agencies, Reuters reports. “The decision not to hear the matter represented a win for the commercialization of publicly available information, although U.S. law remains mixed on the subject,” the report states. The lawsuit alleged the practice violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that a lawsuit claiming LinkedIn illegally mined its subscriber e-mail lists has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh—the judge who recently ruled the Google wiretapping case could go forward.
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