I didn’t know anything about this situation in Turkey until a tweet by Aaron Martin alerted me to it: The Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) has fined the country’s three major mobile phone operators, Turkcell, Avea and Vodafone, a total of TL 13.6 million ($7.5 million) for violating the privacy of their clients. These…
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Privacy Lawsuit Against Wide Open West Sent To Arbitration
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has ruled that the bulk of a privacy lawsuit against the Internet service provider Wide Open West should go to arbitration. Wide Open West was among six Internet service providers that partnered with controversial behavioral targeting company NebuAd in 2007 and 2008 to test its ad-serving platform. Read more…
When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here’s what Facebook sends the cops
Carly Carioli writes: …. One of the most fascinating documents we came across was the BPD’s subpoena of Philip Markoff’s Facebook information. It’s interesting for a number of reasons — for one thing, Facebook has been pretty tight-lipped about the subpoena process, even refusing to acknowledge how many subpoenas they’ve served. Social-networking data is a contested…
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
Declan McCullagh reports: Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he’s raising funds to launch a national “non-profit telecommunications…