Jessica Guynn and Marc Lifsher of the Los Angeles Times report: Silicon Valley has wielded its growing political clout at the state Capitol to kill a digital privacy bill that would have given consumers access to information about them being collected online. Had the Right to Know Act become law, California would have been the…
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Apple’s Privacy Record Sucks. Here’s Why You Should Care
John Paul Titlow writes: The next time you’re thinking about buying a new smartphone, there’s one more spec you might want to consider. If the FBI or the IRS wants to read your texts, will Apple hand them over? Would it require the feds to get a warrant first? And would it even bother to…
Online Ads Can Now Follow You Home
Spencer E. Ante reports: Advertisers already know what people are up to on their personal computers. But understanding their online whereabouts on smartphones or tablets has remained elusive. A number of companies are trying to better pinpoint mobile users’ online activity with new software and techniques they say could help advertisers track users across devices….
Twitter settles dispute with Aussie entrepreneur over data access
Gerry Shih reports: Jodee Rich, the Australian entrepreneur who founded the now defunct telco One.Tel, has reached a settlement with Twitter that allows his social media analytics firm PeopleBrowsr to continue to buy Twitter’s data until the end of 2013. Beginning next year, PeopleBrowsr will have to purchase access to the full “Firehose” of 400…