John Constine reports: Today Facebook will start sending the first of three billion notices to users about proposed changes to its privacy policy, which were made to comply with a Spring deadline for implementing recommendations from an audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. The three biggest changes Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer for Policy Erin Egan told me about…
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Incremental Opt-In: The End of the Privacy Problem
Jim Sterne writes that marketers can avoid a lot of problems by enticing consumers to turn over data voluntarily in incremental steps: Simply put, it is up to you to convince people to hand over the keys to their personal data set. No one expects you to convince everybody to hand over all of their data. At…
IKEA Must Defend Itself in Consumer Class Action
Yet more bad press for IKEA in the privacy department, it seems. Maria Dinzeo reports: A class can proceed with a lawsuit accusing Ikea of requesting and storing customers’ zip codes when making credit card purchases. Rita Medellin sued Ikea in February 2011 for violation of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act after an Ikea cashier…
Company asks court to reinstate $459 million judgment in junk fax lawsuit
Bill Rankin reports: On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments as to whether that ruling [against American Home Services] should stick. The court is reviewing a decision issued a year ago by the state Court of Appeals that overturned the trial judge’s decision. The appeals court said what mattered was how many faxes were…