Declan McCullagh writes: American businesses weren’t very happy about a privacy bill that Rep. Rick Boucher announced in May. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, for instance, said the Virginia Democrat’s draft legislation would have “major” effects on legitimate business practices. Well, if they disliked the Boucher bill, they’re really going to loathe a new Democratic proposal…
Category: Business
HK: Octopus company to review privacy issues
The Octopus Card Company has admitted that it had shared personal details of its 2.4 million card holders with two partner companies involved in a reward scheme. It’s now set up a special committee to review its handling of customers’ personal information. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Prudence Chan, said its partners will be told…
APEC Cooperation Arrangement for Cross-Border Privacy Enforcement
A few days ago, I linked to a news story from ZDNet Asia about cross-border cooperation intended to boost consumer confidence in e-commerce. The FTC has now posted the APEC Cross-border Privacy Enforcement Arrangement to its site, here (pdf).
Apple responds to lawmakers’ questions about location data collection
David Sarno reports: Apple Inc. answered congressional questions about the ways it collects users’ precise location information from its mobile devices and computers, highlighting users’ ability to opt out of data collection, but acknowledging that it collects and stores “batched” user location data that is not directly associated with a particular identity or device. Apple’s…