Venkat Balasubramani kindly pointed me to this Jane Doe lawsuit against Amazon and its subsidiary, IMDB.com. If I understand the thrust of the complaint, Doe, an aspiring actress, had registered with IMDB.com using her stage name. When she upgraded to IMDBpro, however, she was required to provide a credit card number, and with it, the…
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Draft Mobile Application Privacy Policy released by the Mobile Marketing Association
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has released a draft Mobile Application Privacy Policy for public comment. You can read the accompanying press release here. Well, maybe not. That link to the draft policy isn’t working. Maybe it will work tomorrow. 
Update: The link to the draft is working now.
Congressman raises privacy concerns over Amazon Silk
Rachel King reports: Amazon’s anticipated tablet, the Kindle Fire, is still a few weeks away from release, and it’s raising legal issues and questions in every direction. Today the Fire’s flames are being fanned by the Silk browser, which on the front end is touted as a much faster browser using cheaper hardware because all Web…
Majority of Consumers See No Benefit in Sharing Personal Data
Congress held a hearing yesterday on consumer attitude about privacy. Here’s yet another survey on consumer attitude: Seventy-four percent of American and Canadian consumers said they don’t feel they’re receiving a benefit from sharing personal information with marketers, according to the latest survey research from LoyaltyOne. Just 52% said they somewhat or strongly agree with the…