Dawn C. Chmielewski reports: The children’s online site Webkinz is the focus of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission by a child advocacy group, which is urging the agency to investigate corporate parent Ganz for alleged deceptive and unfair trade practices. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood on Tuesday accused the Canadian owner…
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Carrier IQ Gets Transparent About Its Mobile Monitoring
John Paczkowski has an interview with Carrier IQ CEO Larry Lenhart, and Andrew Coward, the company’s VP of marketing. You can read it on All Things D. Here’s a snippet: You say your software doesn’t keep a log of location, keylog and SMS information, yet Trevor Eckhart’s video appeared to show that. What was going…
Rep. Stearns wants Facebook to clarify its privacy policy
“We live in an age of information, which requires careful protection of our privacy,” said Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. “In the recently announced settlement reached by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with Facebook, the FTC outlined a number of incidents since 2009…
Outsourcing to India: Privacy Law Clarified
Peter Brown writes: India’s $41 billion dollar outsourcing industry and its clients can breathe a sigh of relief; the Indian Government has issued an official clarification concerning their new broad privacy regulations. […] In response to industry concerns, the Indian Government has since clarified their recently adopted privacy regulations. India issued an official clarification recently,…