Alexander Hanff writes: Last summer I raised an issue with Google regarding location sharing on Android devices. Google give consumers the option of disabling location sharing on their new Android device during initial device setup (the first time you turn the device on) and the wording Google uses leads consumers to believe that is an…
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Etsy.com backpedals, but how much goodwill of their members might they have lost? (updated)
After getting somewhat roundly slammed and thrashed by the media and the blogosphere over the past 24 hours, Etsy.com has backpedalled and apologized for its recent change in privacy practices. I’d say that it was in response to its members’ complaints in their forums, but the reality is that there were tons of complaints and…
Etsy.com announces change in policy after Facebook-like privacy flap gets media attention
Yesterday I described a complaint this site had received about Etsy.com, an online marketplace that recently (and reportedly retroactively) made seller and buyer information available in a new People Search tool that can be linked to the user’s real name and username. While Etsy.com users can prevent some of the exposure by changing their privacy…
Is Etsy.com sharing too much information?
Back in September and over on DataBreaches.net, I posted a breach involving Etsy.com, an online marketplace that boasts over 7.2 million members, over 400,000 sellers, and 971 million page views per month. At the time, the exposure of sellers’ names was accidental. But what was an accidental breach in September seems to have become policy by…