Josh Constine reports: Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook’s Site Governance page with pasted messages, many more than 7,000 comments were received on the proposal — the threshold for triggering a vote. Europe Vs. Facebook…
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Microsoft Does the Right Thing with Default ‘Do Not Track’
Although not all consumers are impressed, at least some people are pleased with Microsoft’s decision to use default DNT in IE10 for Windows 8. Tony Bradley reports: Microsoft has rattled online advertisers by enabling the ‘Do Not Track’ technology by default in the Windows 8 Release Preview. Despite what the “trackers” might think, though, the…
EU to sue Netherlands, Portugal, 3 others on telecom rules
Foo Yun Chee reports: EU telecoms regulators will take five member states to court – including the Netherlands and Portugal – for not implementing new telecoms rules aimed at protecting users’ privacy online, a European Commission official said on Tuesday. The other countries are Belgium, Poland and Slovenia, the official said, declining to be identified…
Hulu Reloads Against Privacy-Invasion Suit
Nick McCann reports: Hulu urged a federal judge to dismiss claims that it tells third parties what their subscribers watch without consent. In their amended class action, six Hulu subscribers said the video site “repurposed” its browser cache so a marketing analyst service called KISSmetrics could store their private data. The class also claims Hulu shared…