Rainey Reitman provides a helpful discussion of how your Facebook data is shared with Datalogix and how you can opt out. Here’s part of her explanation: In order to assess the impact of Facebook advertisements on shopping in the physical world, Datalogix begins by providing Facebook with a (presumably enormous) dataset that includes hashed email…
Category: Business
UK: Information Commissioner’s Office issues guidelines to businesses on data protection in the cloud
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidelines to businesses today to underline that companies remain responsible for how personal data is looked after, even if they pass it to cloud network providers. More and more businesses are looking to use cloud computing, with the economies of scale they offer giving access to a range of…
Popular websites in Canada disclosing personal information
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Some leading websites in Canada are inappropriately “leaking” registered users’ personal information – including names, email addresses and postal codes – to third-party sites such as advertising companies, research by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found. “The research findings raise concerns for…
FTC’s Role in “Do Not Track” Discussions Under Debate
Josephine Liu writes: As we previously noted, in March of this year the Federal Trade Commission called for the implementation of a Do Not Track (DNT) system that allows consumers to opt out of the collection of all online behavioral data other than data needed for certain limited purposes, such as preventing fraud. Much of the debate over…