Tim Kridel writes for Digital Innovation Gazette: More than half of app users have uninstalled or decided to not install an app due to concerns about personal information, according to a recent Pew Internet Project survey. If that isn’t motivation enough to protect customer privacy, consider the growing number of federal and state laws penalizing…
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McDonald’s removes networking features in some online games
Cecilia Kang reports: McDonald’s said it has removed social networking features in some of its online games after a privacy advocacy group complained to federal regulators that the restaurant chain was violating child online privacy laws. In a complaint filed last August to the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Digital Democracy said McDonald’s was…
Aus student data stored for Google ads
Natalie Apostolou reports: Australian students may be spared potentially invasive digital data access from Google following the Privacy Commission’s decision to back the EU’s reforms regarding Google’s new privacy policy. European data protection agencies have given Google a four month deadline to fix its new privacy policy which the agencies claim do not comply with…
FTC publishes guidelines for facial recognition
You can read “Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies” on the FTC’s site. Here’s a snippet from the Executive Summary: Finally, there are at least two scenarios in which companies should obtain consumers’ affirmative express consent before collecting or using biometric data from facial images. First, they should obtain a consumer’s affirmative…