Dan McCue reports: AT&T claims two Utah men defrauded it by breaking into its caller-ID system with auto-dialers to steal valuable customer data through “hundreds of millions of ‘spoofed’ telephone calls.” They probably used the stolen information for telemarketing, AT&T says. In a federal complaint in Dallas, AT&T and its subsidiaries claim that Phil Iverson…
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Mobile Apps Developer Settles FTC Charges It Violated Children’s Privacy Rule
From the Federal Trade Commission: A developer of mobile applications, including children’s games for the iPhone and iPod touch, will pay $50,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule by illegally collecting and disclosing personal information from tens of thousands of…
DRM for Privacy: Part 1
Ryan Calo writes: Online privacy has been getting quite a bit of attention of late. But the problem seems as intractable as ever. In a pair of posts, I will explore one aspect of the online privacy debate and, drawing from a controversial corner of copyright law, suggest a modest fix. This first post discusses…
LinkedIn responds to massive criticism
I received an email from LinkedIn, presumably in response to an earlier blog post about them, pointing me to a blog entry on their site, in which Ryan Roslansky writes: Over the last few days, some of you may have read stories or blog posts about some new forms of advertising, called “social ads”[1], that…