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…
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Yahoo Responds To Recycled Email Security Problem
Kristin Burnham reports: Yahoo announced late Tuesday night that the company plans to roll out a tool for recipients of recycled email accounts to return messages that were not intended for them. InformationWeek reported Tuesday on three Yahoo users who began receiving emails containing personal information intended for the former user — including bank and wireless account information —…
Dropbox drops in to say “us, too”
Dropbox has filed an amicus brief in support of a consolidated brought in the FISC by five tech giants seeking to be more transparent with the public about government requests for user information.
Is Twitter About To Get More Invasive Than Facebook?
Josh Harkinson writes: Facebook gets all the bad press, but the bigger threat to your online privacy these days might be your Twitter account. Twitter knows you much better than you may realize. And as it prepares for an IPO, it’s taking steps that may allow it to profit from your data in ways that…