Richard Esguerra writes: EFF has called on companies to stand with their users when the government comes looking for data. (If you haven’t done so, sign the petition urging companies to provide better transparency and privacy.) This article will provide a more detailed look at the last of the four elements required for a company to earn a…
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Class Tells AOL to Toss the Cookies
Julia Filip reports: A federal class action demands that AOL stop intruding on millions of people’s privacy by tracking their Web browsing and selling the information to third-party advertisers. Co-defendants ScanScout and Brightcove also are accused of overriding privacy controls on private citizens’ computers to install temporary files, or “cookies.” The three defendants allegedly use…
Myspace’s 50 Million User Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm
Ben Popper reports: Myspace’s biggest asset is arguably its userbase of somewhere between 50 and 65 million people. Myspace posted a dozen data sets on the data marketplace Infochimps in March, with information on status updates, user activity, apps, photos and more, with prices ranging from $25 to $150. To be clear, the data on Infochimps does…
Sen. Toomey: Privacy Rules Might ‘Break The Internet’
With so much going on this year in terms of privacy and data breaches, there have been many who have somewhat optimistically believed that this would be the year when we get privacy legislation and a federal data security/breach notification law. Every year since I started this blog (2006), I’ve seen and posted such news…