Cory Doctorow relays some comments by Brook Jordan on Privacy Blocker app for Android: Basically what the app does is scans all the applications you have installed. It identifies what data the apps are requesting about your phone and sending. It then will “fix” the privacy issue by replacing that data inside the app with…
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ECPA Violation Claim Dropped Against interclick
A press release from interclick: interclick, inc. announced today that claims alleging violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) have been dropped against the Company as part of ongoing legal litigation. In December of 2010, Sonal Bose filed a lawsuit, seeking class action status, against interclick, Inc. claiming, among other things, that interclick’s online…
FTC Finalizes Settlement with US Search Over Charges of Deceptive Privacy Pledges
From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has accepted a final settlement with an online data broker that charged consumers $10 based on the false promise that it could “lock their records” so that others could not see or buy them. The FTC charged that its claims were deceptive and…
Big data to drive a surveillance society
Lucas Mearian reports: As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits and locations with greater precision than ever thought. “It will change our existing notions of privacy. A surveillance society is not only inevitable, it’s worse. It’s irresistible,” said Jeff…