Andrew Hoffman writes: Hot on the trail of the FTC’s recent report on privacy, the GSMA, the London-based industry association representing over 800 cellular network operators worldwide, released its “high-level” Mobile Privacy Principles (the “Principles”) on January 27, 2011. The Principles were released with the goal of creating a “robust and effective framework for the protection of privacy”…
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Reps. Barton and Markey Challenge Facebook on Disclosure of Home Addresses, Mobile Phone Numbers
From EPIC.org: A letter from Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) to Mark Zuckerberg asks about Facebook’s plans to make users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers available to websites and application developers. Facebook suspended the plan after EPIC and others objected. EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg said that “Facebook is trying to blur the…
Permission vs. Privacy: What Your Subscribers Really Expect
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…
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…