LinkedIn users are being urged to contact the company to complain after it was revealed that a change in privacy policy now allows third-party advertisers to harvest users’ profile information and pictures in their ads by default. Blogger Steve Woodruff appears to have been the first to notice the changes to LinkedIn’s Terms of Use, which force…
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Anonymous hacker group plans to kill Facebook on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day, for the sake of privacy
Jennifer Bergen reports: Anonymous, the collective group known for its politically-charged hackers, has announced its next victim: Facebook. In a YouTube video from account “FacebookOp,” Anonymous speaks to the “citizens of the world” in a slightly-terrifying robotic voice, explaining its plans to destroy Facebook. The video encourages viewers to “join the cause” and “kill Facebook for…
Give me back my data! The curse of personal information brokers
Scott Raymond writes: Recently on Reddit, regular contributorLawyerCT presented a list of top sites that collect, store and sell access to your personal data, and provided the methods for removing yourself from these databases. […] It gets worse. While LawyerCT did yeoman’s work collecting the methods of removing yourself from these “services”, there are a number of…
South Korea fines Apple $2,855 over location data
Reuters reports: Apple Inc’s South Korean unit has been fined 3 million won ($2,855) by the country’s communications regulator after the iPhone and iPad maker collected location data from users without proper authorization. The fine, though small, marks the first time Apple has been punished by a regulator over the controversial location data collection which…