Barton Gellman writes that Twitter deserves wider notice for its “remarkable display of backbone” when served with a sealed court order to produce records on users. I concur, as do a number of us in #privchat on Twitter who think everyone should #ThankTwitter. But Gellman’s article goes further, and reports what happened when he contacted…
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Spokeo Draws Ire (and FTC Complaints) from Privacy Advocates for its Zombie Profiles
Over on Forbes, privacy blogger Kashmir Hill discusses complaints about Spokeo – including yours truly’s FTC complaint about the fact that deleted profiles reappeared. Unlike yours truly, who still has not gotten any response from Spokeo to my direct complaint/inquiry to them, Kashmir was able to get a response from them: A Spokeo spokesperson says:…
UK: ‘Serious concerns’ over price comparison sites use of privacy data
Harry Wallop reports: Some sites make it very difficult for customers to opt out of receiving marketing, with some sites seemingly responsible for sending many unsolicited emails. Which?, the consumer body which carried out the study, found that many price comparison websites’ privacy policies were too complicated and broke guidelines set by the Information Commissioners’…
Microsoft: Competing on privacy?
Chris Soghoian writes, in part: A few years ago, advertising executives within Microsoft puled rank and forced the IE team to sabotage an otherwise pretty cool anti-tracking feature in IE8. After the company was rightfully savaged by the Wall Street Journal earlier this summer when it exposed the tale, Microsoft has now decided to offer a…