Associated Press reports: California senators rejected a bill Friday designed to increase privacy on social networking sites, persuaded by objections from some of the burgeoning industry’s biggest players. Sen. Ellen Corbett’s Senate Bill 242 would bar social networking websites from automatically revealing a user’s address, phone number and similar information unless there is a clear…
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Does sale of SAT, ACT student questions violate privacy?
U.S. representatives Ed Markey and Joe Barton will ask the College Board, owner of the SAT college entrance exam, for details on how it collects and stores data from students as the government seeks to bolster teen privacy laws. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Barton, a Republican from Texas, will request the same information from…
Senator wants privacy policies for mobile apps
Grant Gross reports: A U.S. senator wants Apple and Google to require some applications in their mobile app stores to have privacy policies as a way to protect users against location tracking. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s privacy subcommittee, called on the two mobile OS makers to require privacy policies…
Suit Claims Cisco Helped China Pursue Falun Gong
John Markoff reports: Cisco, the maker of Internet routing gear, customized its technology to help China track members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by members of the movement. The lawsuit, which relies on internal sales materials, also said that Cisco had tried to market its equipment…