More on accusations that IKEA may have spied on some dissatisfied customers: Shortly after allegations that it had been snooping on its staff, Swedish furniture giant Ikea in France is in hot water again, this time accused of spying on dissatisfied customers, prompting a police search at the company’s French headquarters. Read more on The…
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Judge Gives comScore Data Disclosure Reprieve
From DNRO: In the US, a federal judge has decided that online measurement firm comScore does not yet have to disclose confidential information – such as the names of its clients – to web users who are suing the company over privacy violation claims. The case was first raised in the US District Court in the Northern…
At CNET’s SXSW ‘big data’ panel, sparks fly over privacy
Daniel Terdiman reports: Representatives from opposite sides in the “big data” privacy debate tangled Sunday over whether a proposed White House “privacy bill of rights” is necessary to keep Americans safe online. During a “big data” panel sponsored by CNET at South by Southwest, Brian Szoka, president of the non-partisan, non-profit, tech policy think tank,…
Facebook Loses Privacy Case in German Court Over Email
Shayndi Rice and Friedrich Geiger report: A German court ruled against Facebook Inc. Tuesday for the way it uses members’ email addresses to solicit new users, in an ongoing battle between the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social network and European privacy groups. The Berlin regional court said on its website that some of Facebook’s terms of…