Corey Kilgannon and Jeffrey E. Singer report: Customers at the A&N Food Market in Queens are almost entirely Chinese. Shelves are stacked with live eels, turtles and frogs, frozen duck tongue and canned congee. And these exotic goods, like any product sold in every neighbourhood of New York, attract shoplifters. But A&N Food Market has…
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Lawmakers Ask Apple’s Steve Jobs for Answers on Privacy
Kenneth Corbin reports: Two self-styled privacy hawks in Congress have turned their attention toward Apple, asking the company for answers about how it is collecting and using information about its users’ geographical location. In a letter to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs, Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) posed a string of…
Domino’s Delivery Guy Demanded My Social Security Number
Is Domino’s trying to cut down on credit card fraud by demanding customers provide some ID? Phil Villarreal writes on the Consumerist: Brent says the Domino’s dude wouldn’t let him pay with a credit card unless he offered up his Social Security Number or driver’s license number. Since Brent was smart enough to know you…
Ca: Business breaches privacy rights
Karen Kleiss reports: An Edmonton business has been ordered to educate its employees about privacy laws after two managers sent out a memo that a “difficult” staffer quit to take a new job and that her new boss would need some luck to deal with her. Information and Privacy adjudicator Keri Ridley ruled managers at…