The FTC has been busy going after companies that violate our privacy. Their latest target: Equifax: One of the largest U.S. consumer reporting agencies, Equifax Information Services LLC, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it improperly sold lists of consumers who were late on their mortgage payments. In two separate actions, both Equifax and…
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The Do Not Track standard has crossed into crazy territory
If you read one thing today on “Do Not Track” (well, apart from Chris Hoofnagle’s great study), make it this post by Ed Bott on ZDNet. Ed writes: The debate over the Do Not Track standard has officially moved beyond Alice in Wonderland. These days, I’m not sure whether it’s 1984 or Brazil. In a sane world, telling a…
Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit
David G. Savage reports that the Supreme Court did not grant certiorari in Hepting v. AT&T, one of the cases that dealt with the role of telecoms in the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance program: The Supreme Court has ended a 6-year-old class-action lawsuit against the nation’s telecommunications carriers for secretly helping the National Security Agency monitor…
Chrome Extension Protects Privacy Against Google, Facebook & 1,000 Other Sites
Dave Copeland writes: If you’re tired of logging into Facebook to reset your privacy options every time the company updates its user agreement, a new Chrome extension may be the fix you’re looking for. PrivacyFix is being released today, and after playing with it, I’m thinking it may be the long-sought after answer to privacy concerns…