Julian Sanchez writes: […] But if promises of confidentiality aren’t enough to retain your Fourth Amendment “reasonable expectation of privacy,” a company’s privacy policy is a perfectly adequate basis forsurrendering your constitutional rights, regardless of whether or not the overwhelming majority of Internet users ever read the policies that are supposed to be the grounds for…
Category: Business
Google rebukes CNN over facial recognition story (updated with CNN’s response)
Yesterday it was a report about Samsung causing a privacy scare. Today it’s a story about Google. While I was working, it seems that CNN published a story claiming that Google was developing an application that would do facial recognition and provide corresponding contact information. The CNN story, by Mark Milian, quoted Google’s Hartmut Neven,…
Online Privacy Battles Advertising Profits
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Are people being hurt when their browsing habits and personal details are collected by online advertising groups? Privacy rights organizations say yes, that people’s sensitive information shouldn’t be left in the hands of businesses that benefit from buying and selling it. Online advertising and financial services groups, however, argue that tracking…
Mozilla’s Do Not Track header gaining ad industry support
Ryan Paul writes: One of the new features that Mozilla introduced in Firefox 4 is a Do Not Track (DNT) setting. When the user enables the DNT option in the browser’s preference dialog, Firefox will transmit a custom header in HTTP requests that will inform servers that the user wants to opt out of Internet…