Chris Crum reports: Yelp reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the violation of child privacy law. The company had enabled kids under 13 (some even 9 and under reportedly) to sign up for its service, collecting their email addresses with parental consent. This apparently went on from 2009 to 2013. Yelp…
Category: Breaches
LinkedIn Feature Exposes Email Addresses
Brian Krebs writes: One of the risks of using social media networks is having information you intend to share with only a handful of friends be made available to everyone. Sometimes that over-sharing happens because friends betray your trust, but more worrisome are the cases in which a social media platform itself exposes your data in the name of marketing….
X-Box Live Privacy Class Action Thrown Out
June Williams reports: Microsoft need not face a class action alleging X-Box Live privacy violations, a federal judge ruled, finding that plaintiffs failed to show specific injuries. Read more on Courthouse News.
Vermont settles with rental company Aaron’s over alleged privacy invasions
Hilary Niles reports a settlement between Vermont and Aaron’s, a firm that was charged by the FTC and sued civilly by customers over the use of remotely activated spyware that captured images of customers. As reported on this blog in numerous previous entries, the software enabled the franchises to locate lost or stolen laptops, but…