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…
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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…
Facebook “disappointed” that Hamburg DPA would like to sue the sh*t out of them
Yesterday I noted that Germany is going after Facebook over its facial recognition tag feature. Today, Kelly Fiveash of The Register has a statement from Facebook about the situation: Facebook’s German spokeswoman Tina Kulow gave the The Register this statement: “We believe that any legal action is completely unnecessary. Tag Suggest feature on Facebook is fully compliant…