From the FTC’s press release: An online advertising company agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it used “history sniffing” to secretly and illegally gather data from millions of consumers about their interest in sensitive medical and financial issues ranging from fertility and incontinence to debt relief and personal bankruptcy. The FTC settlement order bars…
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Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans’ text messages
Declan McCullagh reports: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress. CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement groups has asked the U.S. Senate…
The App from Hell
Dan Solove has been developing short cartoons to teach people about privacy. Check out his “App from Hell” one. It’s spot on, of course, and it’s a message that needs to be circulated more widely.
Student group to take Facebook to court in Ireland
BBC reports that the same student who causes tsures for Facebook over disclosing user data and facial recognition is not happy with Facebook again. Max Schrems and Europe v Facebook are hoping to take Facebook to court . “The Irish authority is miles away from other European data protection authorities in its understanding of the…