Becky Yerak reports: Slamming on the brakes? Doing 100 mph on the highway? Maybe you won’t — if your car insurance company is watching you. Allstate Corp. has launched a voluntary program that uses a device installed in a car to reward safe and low-mileage Illinois drivers with savings of up to 30 percent. The…
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Apple Apps Give Information to Advertisers, Suit Says
Joel Rosenblatt reports: Apple Inc. was sued over claims that applications for the company’s iPhone and iPad transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent. The complaint, which seeks class action, or group, status, was filed on Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California. The suit claims Cupertino, California-based Apple’s iPhones…
McDonald’s, CBS, Mazda & Microsoft Mine Data from Web Ads, Class Says
McDonald’s, CBS, Mazda and Microsoft use their Internet ads as a cover for data-mining, to identify the websites people visit, invading people’s privacy, misappropriating their personal information and interfering with the operations of their computers, a class action claims in Federal Court. “Defendants acted in concert with [nonparty] Interclick, mining consumers’ web browser histories for…
What is Traitorware?
Eva Galperin writes: Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera’s serial number oryour location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy patent it has recently applied…