The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to retain the July 1, 2013 date for implementation of the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). In a letter to industry organizations that had requested that the Commission reconsider the July 1 date, the Commission noted that implementation of the updated rule marks the culmination of a…
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FTC sends warning letters to 10 data brokers
Grant Gross reports: More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information. This week, the FTC warned 10 data brokers, most with a significant online presence, that they may be violating…
Apple’s privacy policy violates German data protection law, Berlin court rules
Loek Essers reports: Apple violates German data protection law by asking for users’ broad, overall consent in its privacy policy, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled. Apple’s terms for sharing personal information with the company are too broadly formulated, the court ruled on April 30, according to a verdictpublished by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations…
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
Glenn Greenwald’s piece in The Guardian is your must-read for this weekend. Here’s a snippet: On Wednesday night, Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between [Katherine Russell and her husband, deceased bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev]. He quite clearly insisted…