Sheila Shayon reports: British Airways new “Know Me” program aims to Google all fliers so check-in staff can “put a face to the name before the customer sets foot in the airport,” reports the UK’s Telegraph newspaper. BA’s current airline practice to conduct a cursory check of flight manifests for VIPs, such as “chief executives of financial…
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Google Near $22.5M Settlement on Safari Breach
Brian Womack reports: Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, is nearing an agreement to pay $22.5 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission probe over claims it violated user privacy on Apple Inc.’s Internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said. The settlement would resolve an investigation over how Google used…
Mobile Phone Surveillance by the Numbers
Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office, writes: Wow. Sometimes one word says it all. The New York Times reports that in response to letters from Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), mobile phone providers disclosed that they received approximately 1.2 million law enforcement requests for customer records last year alone. What an extraordinary…
Privacy risk from ads in apps rising: security firm
Tarmo Virki reports: Some advertising networks have over the last year started to secretly collect app users contacts or whereabouts, and could now have access to 80 million smartphones globally, U.S.-based mobile security firm LookOut said. Over 80 million apps have been downloaded which carry aggressive ads and the problem was rising, LookOut said as…