Joseph Menn reports that although the FTC may have settled with Facebook over some privacy issues, Facebook is not off the legal hook in California. The court declined to dismiss a lawsuit that claims Facebook’s practice of showing people that friends “like” specific products violates California law on right to publicity or use of their…
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Mobile Carriers Claim Consumer Consent to Carrier IQ Spying
David Kravets reports: Americans consented to secretly installed software on 150 million mobile phones that logs what apps they use and what websites they visit and who they communicate with, according to mobile-phone makers and carriers. Sprint, AT&T, HTC and Samsung told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) Thursday that their end-user licensing agreements — those pages…
Sprint disables Carrier IQ software on its handsets
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Sprint, the biggest user of Carrier IQ’s software, said Friday it has disabled use of the tool in response to customer concerns. The wireless carrier is no longer collecting data using the tool and is evaluating its options regarding the software going forward, the company said in an emailed statement. Read more on Computerworld….
EPIC Launches Campaign Urging Public Comment on Facebook Privacy Settlement
From EPIC.org: EPIC launched the “Fix FB Privacy Fail” campaign to encourage the public to support improvements to a settlement between Facebook and the FTC. The settlement follows from complaints filed by EPIC and other consumer and privacy organizations in 2009 and 2010over Facebook’s decision to change its users’ privacy settings in a way that made users’ personal information more widely available…