Facebook Ireland has agreed to delete the “template” images it stores of its EU users in response to concerns raised by privacy bodies, the Irish data protection watchdog has said. Read more on Out-Law.com. Once again, it seems that users outside the U.S. may have more privacy protection and rights than U.S. users. The Irish…
Category: Business
Nestlé launches We Will Find You promotion
Mike Laycock reports: Customers buying chocolate bars from York-based Nestlé may instead find a satnav device inside the wrapper – and then within 24 hours, a prize team will track them down to hand over £10,000. The company is launching a unique promotion which will utilise GPS technology to locate the winners of six £10,000…
Big Data for All
Omer Tene writes: Much has been written over the past couple of years about “big data” (See, for example, here and here and here). In a new article, Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics, which will be published in the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Jules Polonetsky and I try to reconcile the inherent…
Should the Duchess of Cambridge call upon Google to assist in restoring her privacy?
When I read the headline of the blog entry by Tim Lowles on Inforrm’s Blog, “Should the Duchess of Cambridge call upon Google to assist in restoring her privacy?” my first thought was, “Why bother asking?” For the longer version and explanation of why asking Google is generally a waste of time, read Tim’s commentary.