More on the accusations concerning IKEA, mentioned previously on this blog: A French security company tied to a legal complaint alleging that Swedish furniture giant Ikea illegally spied on staff and customers denied involvement on Saturday, blaming a renegade former employee. Prosecutors in Versailles near Paris on Thursday opened an investigation into the affair following…
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Schumer calls for probe of personal info stolen over Internet
Oh, goody. Another investigation. My senator issued the following press release: “United States Senator Charles E. Schumer today called for the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into reports that smartphone applications sold on the Apple and Android platforms are allowed to steal private photos and customers address books. “This past week, the New…
As Google acts, the question is: have we lost our privacy to the internet?
Google unveiled its new policy on protecting personal information, to a chorus of disapproval last week. As alarm grows over how much data we are handing over to large companies that mine it for profit, Joss Wright (Fresnel research fellow at Oxford University) and Tom Chatfield (writer and commentator on digital culture) lock horns over…
Spain refers Google privacy complaints to EU’s top court
Claire Davenport reports: Spain’s highest court wants the top court in Europe to decide if requests by Spanish citizens to have data deleted from Google’s search engine are lawful, in a case that could put more pressure on it to review its privacy policies. The court, the Audiencia Nacional, said it had asked the European…