Privacy practices can be a tool in a labor or political dispute. A press release from Wisconsin that I just read seems designed to try to harm a bank’s reputation by alleging deceptive privacy practices. Allegations that the bank worked to elect a governor who has opposed collective bargaining seem almost secondary to the allegations…
Category: Business
UDID: The Next Privacy Frontier?
The Womble Carlyle Team writes: Companies that make their money in the mobile computing space – application developers, device manufacturers, software adaptors – have a new worry. Many functions and applications used on iPhone devices currently rely on reporting that includes the UDID unique device identifier. Two new lawsuits against Apple for its use of…
Device Fingerprinting Raises Privacy Fears
Jack Marshall reports: Privacy advocates have expressed concern about device fingerprinting, an emerging technology that allows advertisers to uniquely and persistently identify connected devices such as computers, smartphones, and tablets. When sending or receiving data, connected devices transmit pieces of information about their properties and settings, which can be collected and pieced together to form…
The negative impact of AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile on the market for privacy
Chris Soghoian writes: Yesterday, AT&T announced that it will be purchasing T-Mobile, the fourth largest wireless carrier in the US. While there are many who have raised antitrust concerns about this deal due to the impact it will have on the price of wireless services and mobile device/application choice, I want to raise a slightly…