Antone Gonsalves reports that the California Chamber of Commerce and TechAmerica have squared off against the ACLU of Northern California and EFF over AB 1291, a bill that would give consumers the right to see all the information a company holds about them and to find out what other companies – specifically – the data are…
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Android apps found to have breached user privacy: study
Hamish Barwick reports: Android phone users have been warned to check app permissions after it was found that some popular apps upload mobile numbers to third-party entities without notification. According to a new study by Bitdefender, 12.87 per cent of 130,000 free Android apps sent user phone numbers to third-party servers. The researchers found that…
New California “Right to Know” Act Would Let Consumers Find Out Who Has Their Personal Data — And Get a Copy of It
Rainey Reitman writes: … A new proposal in California, supported by a diverse coalition including EFF and the ACLU of Northern California, is fighting to bring transparency and access to the seedy underbelly of digital data exchanges. The Right to Know Act (AB 1291) would require a company to give users access to the personal data the company has…
European regulators to take action against Google
Lori Hinnant or Associated Press reports: Google’s new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul practices they say let it create a data goldmine at the expense of unwitting users. Led by the French, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy…