Brendan Lynch reports: U.S. Rep. Ed Markey is calling for a federal probe of Facebook over privacy issues involving a recently added automatic photo-tagging feature. “Requiring users to disable this feature after they’ve already been included by Facebook is no substitute for an opt-in process,” said the Malden Democrat, who called for an investigation by…
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Nissan car secretly shares driver data with websites
Dan Goodin reports: Electric cars manufactured by Nissan surreptitiously leak detailed information about a driver’s location, speed and destination to websites accessed through the vehicle’s built in RSS reader, a security blogger has found. The Nissan Leaf is a 100-percent electric car that Nissan introduced seven months ago. Among its many innovations is a GSM…
An Analysis of Google Logs Retention Policies
Vincent Toubiana of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and Helen Nissenbaum of New York University have published an article, “An Analysis of Google Logs Retention Policies,” in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (2011): Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 2. Here’s the Abstract: To preserve search log data utility, Google groups search queries in log bundles by…
SC: Cellphone privacy violations alleged: Local attorney among first to bring class-action lawsuit
Allyson Bird reports on yet another lawsuit stemming from a Wall Street Journal article: Google’s Android smartphones might know more about the people who use them than their friends and family. Not only do the cell phones and their applications track customers’ physical locations, but they store and transmit everything from sexual orientation to income,…