Martin Robinson reports: The shopping habits of Britain’s 25 million supermarket loyalty card holders could be grabbed by the Government in an attempt to halt the UK’s dangerous obesity crisis, it was claimed today. People who buy too much alcohol, fatty foods or sugary drinks would be targeted with ‘tailored’ health advice under plans being…
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CEO Of Internet Provider Sonic.net: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your Internet Provider Should, Too.
Andy Greenberg of Forbes reports: Dane Jasper’s tiny Internet service provider Sonic.net briefly took the national spotlight last October, when it contested a Department of Justice order that it secretly hand over the data of privacy activist and WikiLeaks associate Jacob Appelbaum. But Jasper’s conversion into a privacy true believer began earlier, with a less-discussed…
Apple gets privacy-protecting data pollution patent
Geoff Duncan reports: One remarkable thing about Apple is that it has generally made decisions in favor of preserving its customers privacy rather than collecting data about their preferences or activities — or making it easy for third parties to do so without Apple users’ explicit permission. However, now the company has a patent on…
Facebook agrees to privacy policies for all apps in App Center
TelecomTiger reports: Facebook has agreed to give people advance warning if its mobile applications pull personal information from mobile phones and tablet computers, reports AP. With this Facebook has become the seventh company to do so. The other six companies are Apple Inc., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Research in Motion Ltd. and Hewlett…