Ben Popken writes: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that Facebook will toss a policy that made developers and partners with access your data to delete it after 24 hours. Now they can just keep it. Turns out the privacy policy hindered growth: Zuckerberg told Inside Facebook […] Coming soon after their announcement that…
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North Carolina defends request for Amazon.com customer records
As a follow-up to a story originally posted here a few days ago, Declan McCullagh reports: North Carolina’s tax collectors said Wednesday that they never demanded personal information such as book titles from Amazon.com, which filed a federal lawsuit against the state this week seeking to keep that information confidential. “Amazon’s complaint is misleading in…
Privacy gaffe leads to multiple firings at Ohio Apple Store
“Several” workers at the Legacy Village Apple Store in Lyndhurst, Ohio have been fired following an accidental privacy violation, according to a report. Sources note that when a computer is brought in for service by Apple, a standard procedure is used to backup and restore a customer’s data; this normally ensures that once a restore…
Google boosts lobbying spending more than 50%
Cecilia Kang blogs: Google increased its first-quarter spending on lobbying by more than 50 percent to argue its position on privacy, online advertising competition and net neutrality to members of Congress, federal regulators and the White House. According to documents filed Tuesday with Congress, the company spent $1.38 million on lobbying in the first quarter…