Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News reports: Ringleader Digital, an advertising company “hacked the mobile phones of millions of consumers” to create a database of customers’ demographic information for the benefit of major media networks such as Fox News and CNN, according to a federal class action. Delaware-based Ringleader “stamped” a “Unique Device Identifier” into customers’…
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Going to the movies? Prepare to be watched while you watch
wconeybeer writes: Gaining entry to some movie theaters lately gives patrons an experience that is on par with going through a TSA security checkpoint at the airport. Then once you’ve gained access, there are cameras strategically positioned that record your every move. Unfortunately, the extent to which these companies monitor movie-goers is only going to…
AT&T: No, we won’t share records with auto insurance company
Last week, Miriam Cherry posted a blog entry on Concurring Opinions that got some of us thinking. Here is what she wrote about a conversation she had with an AT&T customer service representative: The customer service representative said that she had heard that AT&T was cooperating with several insurance companies. In order to reduce the…
Facebook Says User Data Sold To Broker
Geoffrey A. Fowler and Emily Steel report: Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by…