At this point, class action lawsuits over privacy violations have been one of the primary mechanisms for consumers to essentially punish companies that have done privacy wrong (E.g. the Facebook Beacon disaster).

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While this practice is more often than not followed to simplify workflow rather than born of malice, it raises serious questions about the accountability of individual members of IT when something in fact does go wrong, e.g. poor decision-making that results in resource downtime.

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On the legal front, job interviews are frequent generators of lawsuits because interviewers often ask the wrong questions, (e.g. those having to do with age, gender, sexual preference, etc.).

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Finally, the appeals court saw nothing wrong with handing any undistributed proceeds back to the Wells Fargo Charitable Foundation, an affiliate of A.G.

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