If you haven’t explored this site already, you’ll want to check it out: http://www.privacychoice.org/ And while you’re there, do check out the “Who’s Watching” section to see what companies are collecting information about you if you visit certain sites. For a good companion piece, see Ms. Smith’s article, “Privacy Choices: Who’s Watching You and Tracking…
Category: Business
How Facebook sells your friends
Brad Stone writes: […] Marketers have long hoped to turn the Web into the perfect advertising medium. Pop-ups on AOL, banners on Yahoo!, and search ads on Google were steps along that journey. But it’s Facebook, the Palo Alto (Calif.)-based social network whose life as a moneymaking business is only now beginning, that may be…
Creator of Evercookie says point was to raise awareness
Following up on the controversy and buzz over Evercookie, a persistent cookie, Jacqui Cheng contacted Samy Kamkar, the developer. She reports, in part: Sound evil? It is. But Kamkar—whose motto is “think bad, do good”—doesn’t seem all that evil. In fact, Kamkar told Ars that he wrote evercookie to raise user awareness about the ways…
Online Data Broker Settles FTC Charges Privacy Pledges Were Deceptive
An online data broker that charged consumers $10 based on the promise that it could “lock their records”so others could not see or buy them, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its claims were deceptive and violated federal law. The settlement requires that the operation refund the fees it charged to nearly…