Alexi Friedman reports: … The state Division of Consumer Affairs today announced a settlement with an online advertising company that agreed to pay $1 million for having circumvented consumers’ privacy settings by allowing millions of targeted ads to reach unsuspecting New Jersey web users. State officials said the ads imbedded “cookies” into computer hard drives, essentially…
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Conflicting TCPA Decisions Pose Risks for Text Message Marketing
William B. Baker writes: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) (47 U.S.C. §227) prohibits the use of automatic dialing machines to make any calls to a telephone number assigned to a mobile device without “prior express consent” of the called party. This prohibition applies to text message marketing, because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and…
Class Claims Dating Sites Disclose HIV Statuses
William Dotinga reports: Dating website conglomerate SuccessfulMatch.com posts its customers’ HIV and STD statuses on thousands of its other websites, in violation of law and its own promises of confidentiality, a class action claims in Federal Court. […] “On the home page of PositiveSingles.com, defendant lured them in with empathetic sounding statements like ‘You feel…
U.S. cloud firms face backlash from NSA spy programs
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Non-U.S. clients of American cloud hosting companies are clearly rattled by revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency collects huge amounts of customer data from Internet Service Providers and telecommunication companies. A Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) survey found that 10% of 207 officials at non-U.S. companies have canceled contracts with U.S. service…