Matthew Ingram comments on this week’s court decision tossing claims against McDonald’s, Interclick, Mazda, and Microsoft for use of “flash cookies.” In this case, the plaintiff tried to argue that the use of “flash cookies” and other methods to track her for advertising purposes, even after she had deleted her cookies, was a breach of the Computer…
Category: Breaches
Mobile Phone Monitoring Service Found
Lion Gu writes: We’ve been reporting about several NICKISPY variants — Android malware that can monitor a phone’s activities, like SMS, phone calls, and location — here on the Malware Blog, and we’ve been curious of how use such kind of private information, and how they earn money from it. Now, we have a clear example. We’ve found…
Hawkins claims Patterson violated students’ privacy
Chris Norwood reports: Talladega College President Billy Hawkins is alleging that City Council President Horace Patterson’s re-election campaign violated the privacy of students by obtaining their home addresses and sending campaign literature to their homes over the summer. Although voter rolls are public information, college students who vote in Talladega must register with their Talladega…
The Boy Who Cried “Privacy Breach!”
David Berkowitz writes: Gather around for a story, boys and girls. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Once upon a time, there was a boy tending his social flocks of friends and followers. He would continually go up to the social embankments and shout, “Help, there’s a privacy breach!” The bloggers and reporters…