Rob Crossley reports: Bejeweled developer PopCap has branded Wall Street Journal findings “misleading” after the paper claimed that numerous app developers had “shared personal data widely and regularly” in “violation” of Apple rules. […] Ed Allard, Head of Studios at PopCap Games, has played down the accusations. … ”PopCap would like to assure players of…
Category: Business
The $8 Billion Do Not Track Prize
Ben Kunz of Bloomberg BusinessWeek writes: There’s a great moment in All The President’s Men, the film based on the 1970s Watergate investigation, in which the inside source known only as Deep Throat tells Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward to “follow the money.” Analyzing financial flows and motivation can unearth secrets, Woodward found. So let’s…
Court Finds NebuAd Users Gave Valid Consent to Monitoring
Winston Maxwell writes: In 2008, when several network operators began experiments with behavioral advertising firms NebuAd and Phorm, privacy advocates cried foul, arguing that network operators should never be allowed to monitor traffic for advertising purposes because the threats to privacy are too great. […] One of the telecom operators who experimented with NebuAd in…
A Reality Check on Righteous Privacy Indignation
Chris Maxcer comments: According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some of my iPhone apps are spying on me. They apparently know when I use them, my location, my age and my gender. Then they send it all to marketing companies. This wouldn’t happen if we’d all pay full price for everything we use…