Jonny Bonner reports: Public interest groups appealed a controversial $20 million settlement to claims that Facebook used the names and likenesses of its users to promote products without their permission. The Children’s Advocacy Center and the Center for Public Interest Law, representing adult and child users of Facebook, filed the multiple appeals in the U.S….
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Facebook wants to auto-fill your credit card details – would you trust it?
Lisa Vaas writes: On Monday night, a very hush-hush Facebook tiptoed into testing an “Autofill with Facebook” feature – autofill your credit card information, that is – that it will begin rolling out to some users this week, according to The Verge. According to sources familiar with the company’s plans, the new payments product will allow…
Google Fined By French Regulators For Not Complying With Privacy Demand (corrected)
Sam Lehman reports: Google Inc. finds itself in hot waters again for failing to comply with French privacy demands, despite a three-month extended deadline given by the national authorities. The Paris-based Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), an independent data protection commission, Friday released a report detailing Google’s failure to make necessary changes…
Microsoft gets 37,000 requests for user data in first half of year
Juan Carlos Perez reports: Judges and police investigators are on track to submit about the same number of requests to Microsoft for end user data this year as they did in 2012, according to figures released Friday. Microsoft received 37,196 such requests worldwide in the first six months of the year, meaning it’s on track…