Not surprisingly, lawyers for Amazon and IMDB have moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an actress because IMDB revealed her birthdate on her profile, which she alleges constituted misuse of her private information and breach of their stated terms about how they use information. Gene Johnson of Associated Press reports that the defendants’ response,…
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When Sites Drag the Unwitting Across the Web
Over on The New York Times, Somini Sengupta reports on the recent uproar over Klout creating profiles on minors. Bottom line: Five days later, Klout announced it would allow users to delete their profiles. And days after that, the company said it would no longer create Klout scores automatically for the Facebook friends of its…
LinkedIn Beats Referrer URL Privacy Class Action on Article III Standing Grounds–Low v. LinkedIn
Venkat Balasubramani writes: Low brought a putative class action against LinkedIn, complaining about the fact that LinkedIn “allows transmission of users’ personally identifiable browsing history and other personal information to third parties, including advertisers, marketing companies, data brokers, and web tracking companies . . . ” He asserted a variety of different claims, including under…
W3C Proposes Do Not Track Privacy Standard
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body that develops the protocols and guidelines for the Web, Monday released the first draft of its proposed standard for implementing “Do Not Track” online. Do Not Track refers to giving consumers the ability to opt out of having their personal information and…