Shan Li reports: After outrage from activists and religious groups, Apple has removed an app called Jew or not Jew from its App Store in France, stirring up more debate about the company’s content guidelines. The app asks users to identify whether a French politician or other celebrities are Jewish. Apple pulled the app after…
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FTC Proposes Revisions to COPPA Rule
Nicole Freiss writes: On September 15, 2011 the FTC issued proposed revisions to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule”), which imposes requirements on web sites that are directed at and/or collect personal information from children younger than 13 years old. According to the FTC, the revisions are to “ensure that the Rule continues to protect children’s privacy, as…
Is Ziff Davis Offering Money To Sites To Secretly Track Users?
Duncan Riley of Medacity claims they are: Technology publisher Ziff Davis is offering money to tech sites to secretly track their users, Medacity has learned exclusively. The publisher is pitching the “Ziff Davis Tech Co-Op” as “a closed door invitation only club of some of the best tech sites (publishers, etailers, affiliates) on the web…
AU: Westfield Bondi caught in ‘find my car’ privacy flap
Less than one week after Ben Grubb reported privacy concerns or the potential for abuse of a new mobile app, he reports that there’s been a breach: Westfield’s new mobile app has been caught leaking customers’ car number plate data on to the public internet, allowing for “anyone with the knowhow” to monitor when cars…