Andrea Peterson reports: When you apply for a loan or try to recover your lost e-mail password, you’ll often be asked to give information about a long-ago address, employer, or bank account. You might also be asked for your Social Security number or driver’s license. The idea is that only the real you would know…
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How Google could have made the Web secure and failed — again
Danny Sullivan reports: You probably didn’t notice, but this week, your searching activity on Google got a little safer from prying eyes. When you go to Google, it likely will transfer you automatically to its “encrypted” service, one designed to prevent potential “eavesdropping” on your searches. What’s not to like with that? Chiefly, a loophole…
Google’s Gmail scanning unclear to users, judge finds
Jeremy Kirk reports that Judge Lucy Koh has allowed a class action lawsuit against Google over its email scanning for advertising to go forward. Her ruling was not particularly surprising to me based on how oral argument had gone. Kirk reports: Google had filed a motion to dismiss the suit, which alleges that the company…
Rockefeller Expands Data Broker Investigation
Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV today called on twelve popular personal finance, health, and family-focused websites for their assistance in his ongoing investigation into the way data brokers collect and share a consumer’s personal information. Rockefeller is engaging the websites to ask whether they share consumer data with third parties, after learning that some…