From Associated Press: A Swiss court has ruled that Google Inc. must guarantee anonymity before publishing faces and license plates in its Street View service in Switzerland. A ruling published Monday by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court affects any new ground-level pictures that the popular Internet search engine publishes. Read more on Metro.
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Rogue Android app sent personal info to legit version’s developer, claims AVAST
Gregg Keizer reports: A malicious Android app that shamed users for pirating software transmitted personal information to a URL controlled by the legitimate app’s developer, a security company said today. The developer of “Walk and Text,” the app whose code was recompiled and re-released on unauthorized online stores, denied the claim by AVAST Software, an…
Contracts and ‘Reasonable Expectations of Privacy’
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…
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,…