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…
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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…
Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’
Simmons, Joshua L., Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’ (September 19, 2009). Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2009, No. 3, p. 950. The full-text article is available as a free download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1475524 Abstract: Your information is for sale, and the government is buying it at alarming…