Mark Brown reports: Google, Three and MasterCard are among 26 companies that have signed up to a government initiative called “midata“, which is aimed at giving UK citizens access to the personal information kept by corporations. The take-away mantra is that “data should be released back to consumers,” and organisations will hand over your key…
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Regulators: Facebook’s cookies remain with users after account canceled
Jeremy C. Owens reports that Facebook may have yet more problem with German privacy laws: A German regulator accused Facebook of tracking users with cookies after they have canceled their accounts with the social-networking giant, according to reports Wednesday. Bloomberg News reports that the Hamburg Data Protection Agency suspects the company is tracking users in…
Has Carbonite had a privacy breach? I’m getting spam.
Richi Jennings writes what happened when he started getting spam at a tagged email address he had given only to Carbonite: The company responded with a dry drawer statement: Carbonite has discovered an advertiser misappropriated our e-mail list during the process of one of our e-mail marketing campaigns. When Carbonite launches an e-mail marketing campaign,…
German gaming company EA accused of violating privacy rights by incorporating American conditions
Once again we see Germany providing greater privacy protection than the U.S. The Local (De) reports: Top video game maker EA has been forced to modify the terms and conditions of its online distribution system Origin following allegations that it violated German privacy regulations. Controversy over Origin, a downloadable client which allows for games to…