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…
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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…
AU: Does Ozhomevalue.com.au breach vendor’s privacy?
Ryan O’Grady writes: OzHomevalue is a Realestate.com.au owned website for property vendors providing them with sales data information in relation to the suburb where the vendor’s property is located. From their homepage: OzHomeValue provides a comprehensive property report to help find the value of your home. Try our easy to use, obligation free system and…
NL: KPN under fire over internet privacy
Criticism is mounting of telecoms company KPN for using software known as Deep Packet Inspection to monitor what extra services mobile internet users are accessing. KPN said on Thursday it used DPI to monitor use of the WhatsApp application for smart phones but denied it analyses actual messaging and content. Vodafone has also admitted using…