Peter Eckersley of EFF comments: There is a lot of discussion about Do Not Track at the moment. The FTC has announced supportfor the idea; Mozilla has added a Do Not Track header option into Firefox betas, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier has introduced a Do Not Track bill. Other proposed privacy legislation, such as Rep. Bobby Rush’s bill, could…
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Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients For Privacy And Monetization Violations, Trademark Infringement
Leena Rao writes: Well this is interesting. According to this post, Twitter has suspended UberTwitter and Twidroyd for violating its policies. The action is even more fascinating considering that UberMedia, which operates UberTwitter and Twidroyd, is building an army of third-party Twitter clients, including Tweetdeck, that compete directly with Twitter’s web and mobile clients. […] Today we suspended several…
GA Representative Seeking Investigation into Google’s Collection of Information
Crystal Bruce reports: Google announced last May that the vehicles used to collect visual data for its Street View mapping program had gathered private communications from unsecured consumer Wi-Fi networks over a three year period. “After almost nine months since Google first admitted to collecting this data,” the letter states, “we still don’t have answers…
Data Resellers Liable for Downstream Security Failures
Leslie Fair of the FTC comments on recent settlements that were reported earlier this month on DataBreaches.net: Of course, no legitimate business would put out a welcome mat for crooks. But as the FTC’s data security cases make clear, that’s the effect when companies fail to take reasonable steps to secure sensitive information in their…