Rick Buck writes: So you purchase an airline ticket to visit your folks in Florida to get out of the cold. An implicit condition of getting on that plane is that you have to go through a security check. However, when you get to security they want to pat you down rather than walk you…
Category: Business
Je: More complaints to data protection about privacy breaches
The number of people who complained about having their privacy breached rose by a third in Jersey in 2010. A report by the office of the data protection commissioner said it was busier last year than ever before. Most of the complaints were about retailers, particularly online companies that sent unwanted marketing emails. Read more…
New Study Shows Persistence Of ‘Flash Cookies’
Joe Mullin reports: The tracking uses of so-called “Flash cookies,” the data packets stored in the computers of users of Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash Player, started getting a lot more attention last year, when they were the focus of an article about online privacy in the Wall Street Journal, as well as severallawsuits. They were also…
Nightclubs, Bars, Other Businesses Increasingly Gathering, Retaining Data of Customers
A recent news story out of Australia about how a pub was requiring biometric data to get a drink drew a lot of attention. It was not the first story like that I’ve posted to this blog, and sadly, it won’t be the last. Over on Privacy Lives, the story inspired Melissa Ngo to pull…