Steve Stecklow reports: A draft House bill with bipartisan support would prohibit companies from tracking children on the Internet without parental consent, restrict online marketing to minors and require an “Eraser Button” that would allow parents to eliminate kids’ personal information already online. The draft of the “Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011“—released by…
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Nintendo revises privacy policy
Ben Parfitt reports: As the industry continues to come to terms with the wider implications of the PSN breach, Nintendo has contacted Club Nintendo members about the introduction of a new privacy policy. As part of it, the company asks permission to gather information from users. Users who don’t check or agree to the new…
Google joins California Do-Not-Track opposition lobby
Gavin Clarke reports: Google has become the only browser marker to explicitly join lobbyists opposing a proposed law giving consumers the legal right to keep companies from tracking them online. The giant has put its name to an alarmist letter signed by 30 other organizations, trade groups and individual companies, objecting to the passage of…
California lawmakers ask: What’s in a zip code?
A new bill making its way through the California legislature aims to curb a wave of class-action lawsuits filed against retailers over the collection of customer zip codes. More than 150 class-action suits have been filed in California since February when the state Supreme Court ruled that Williams-Sonoma had violated state law by requesting customer…