Dan Rowinski writes: …. Every month, a new story arises of how a mobile app failed to protect user information. Or how an advertising network violated consumer privacy. These stories highlight a very real issue: Policies that effect how technology interacts with consumers have not kept pace with innovation. Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) understands that…
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The Things They Stored: Malte Spitz Delivers a Powerful Talk on Mobile Carriers Recording Your Daily Life
Ryan Singel writes: The mobile phone you carry in your pocket has revolutionized daily life, but it’s also made possible a surveillance society previously only dreamed of by the likes of the Stasi, KGB and NSA. Malte Spitz, a German Green Party politician, wanted to know what his carrier, T-Mobile, collected on him, and filed…
U.S. groups: Foreign cloud providers marketing against privacy concerns
Grant Gross reports: Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Deutsche Telekom and other companies are marketing their cloud productsas more private than those from U.S. vendors because of the Patriot Act…
Professional Hockey’s TCPA (And Other) Privacy Problems
Thomas O’Toole writes: Morrison & Foerster’s Socially Aware blog has an interesting post about a California man who filed a putative class action lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team for failing to honor the team’s alleged promise to send him no more than three text messages each week. After receiving five messages the first week and…