Elinor Mills reports: Citibank has fixed a flaw in its iPhone app that was inadvertently storing customer account data on the mobile devices, the company said on Monday. “During a recent review, we discovered that our U.S. Citi Mobile iPhone banking app was accidentally saving information related to customer accounts in a hidden file on…
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Wal-Mart to use RFID tags to track clothing
Miguel Bustillo of the Wall Street Journal reports that Wal-Mart is about to expand its use of RFID tags to track clothing: Starting next month, the retailer will place removable “smart tags” on individual garments that can be read by a hand-held scanner. Wal-Mart workers will be able to quickly learn, for instance, which size…
Retail wall of shame aims to tame shoplifting
Clare Mellor reports on what may indicate a trend in North America: posting suspected shoplifters’ pictures in stores and banning them — despite the fact that they have never been charged criminally. I posted a story like this from New York last month and now there’s one out of Nova Scotia: A couple of Dartmouth…
More reactions to “Best Practices Act”
The Federal Trade Commission today testified about FTC efforts to protect consumer privacy and commented on legislative proposals to improve privacy protections before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The testimony presented by David Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, described…