Nate Jenkins reports: Now the only state that doesn’t allow information to be scanned from drivers’ licenses, Nebraska may soon let store clerks do more than just look at them when selling alcohol, tobacco and lottery tickets. On Monday, state lawmakers gave first-round approval to a bill (LB261) that would allow retailers to electronically scan…
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Google Local Business Center Privacy Breach?
Google Blogoscoped has an entry that begins: According to David Dalka, Google committed a privacy breach and sent him and others the statistics for someone else’s Google Local Business center. For his part, Dalka writes: This is the latest in a series of controversies regarding Google Local Business Results. If the Google Local Business Results…
Businesses May be Liable for Employee Statements on Social Networking Sites, says new FTC Guidelines
Michael Overly writes: New FTC guidelines (http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf) that went into effect on December 1, 2009, may impose liability on businesses for statements their employees make on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, personal blogs, and other sites – even if the company had no actual knowledge those statements were being made. Specifically, if…
AU: Fury at Telstra over phone privacy breach
Ruth Lamperd reports: Telstra is under fire for a serious privacy breach after a Melbourne man’s personal contact list ended up on another man’s brand new iPhone. Nathan Fallon was given an iPhone as a gift two days before Christmas and was shocked to find it already contained 182 contact names and numbers. Staff at…