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…
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PopCap fires back at ‘misleading’ privacy probe
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…
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…