Shaun Dakin just pointed me to this op-ed by Dana Milbank: You can find just about anything at the annual homeland security expo: X-ray machines, infrared cameras, a police cruiser with heat-sensing capability, a hovering “gyroplane” — and a GPS device that can spy on your spouse. The salesman for Blackline GPS Corp., maker of “professional grade…
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Canadian lawsuits take on Facebook over using members’ names, photos in ‘sponsored stories’
Gillian Shaw writes: Do you want to enter a contest to win a trip to Rome? All you have to do is like Air Wick on Facebook. You may not even know Air Wick is but as the price of entering that contest, you’ve just given Facebook permission to make you a spokesperson promoting the…
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges With Upromise
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Upromise, Inc., a membership reward service aimed at consumers trying to save money for college used a web-browser toolbar to collect consumers’ personal information without adequately disclosing the extent of the information it was collecting. The settlement order will…
Yahoo to Adopt ‘Do Not Track’ Consumer Privacy Tool
Web media giant Yahoo said it is adopting a “Do Not Track” online tool to allow visitors to opt out of data collection by advertisers. The announcement by Yahoo comes the same week the Federal Trade Commission praised the online industry for voluntarily adopting Do Not Track mechanisms to protect the privacy rights of consumers….