Google’s problems over Street View collecting personal data from unsecured wi-fi connections are apparently not over. John Ribeiro reports: South Korea has concluded that Google illegally collected personal data while collecting information for its Street View map service, an official at the country’s National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday. The official, who declined to be…
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Interview: Scott Kamber On His ‘Spate’ Of Lawsuits Over Internet Privacy
Joe Mullin writes: The ad agency interclick took an unusual tactic in defending itself this week against recent lawsuits alleging the company and its customers violated users’ online privacy: it took a shot at its opponents’ law firm. Without actually naming the firm, it implied that the firm was filing bogus privacy suits, saying in a press…
NC: Telemarketer that violated Do Not Call injunction ordered to pay $40,000 to state
A California company that made repeated calls to North Carolina consumers on the Do Not Call Registry even after being ordered to stop must now pay $40,000 to the state, Attorney General Roy Cooper said today. “My office will continue to fight those who ignore the Do Not Call Registry,” Cooper said. “You’ve said loud…
CN: Personal details of porn website bosses revealed in report
Pang Qi reports: The personal information of 13 heads of pornographic websites has been published for the first time, in a report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Tuesday, according to the Beijing News. The report, called “Illegal and Unhealthy Information on Mobile Internet Inspection Report (issue 3, 2010),” was compiled by the Network…