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…
Category: Business
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…
Lawsuit filed against Apple over apps collecting personal information
From Courthouse News, word of a lawsuit filed by Anthony Chiu in federal court for the Northern District of California against Apple for violations of the Stored Communications Act, invasion of privacy, and other claims. The lawsuit seems to be based on an Wall Street Journal “What They Know” article and research by Eric Smith of…
AU: You want a drink? Give us your fingerprints
Natalie O’Brien and Eamonn Duff report: Thousands of clubbers and pub patrons are being forced to submit to fingerprint and photographic scans to enter popular venues, seemingly unaware of the ramifications of handing over their identity. Biometric scanners, once the domain of James Bond movies, are flooding the pub market as the fix-all solution to…