Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, announced today that Netflix has canceled their Neflix Prize Sequel. The contest generated a number of privacy concerns and an FTC investigation. In an announcement on their web site, he writes: …. In the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked us how a Netflix Prize…
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Mobile that allows bosses to snoop on staff developed
Michael Fitzpatrick reports: Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back to HQ. It works by analysing…
Customer “Upskirted” at Store Loses Privacy Lawsuit
Matthew Heller writes: A customer at a T.J. Maxx store in upstate New York has lost her lawsuit against the retailer for allowing a man to take photos up her skirt by using her as “human bait” in a sting operation. Security workers did not warn customers that they were surreptitiously videotaping the man as…
LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False
LifeLock, Inc. has agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that the company used false claims to promote its identity theft protection services, which it widely advertised by displaying the CEO’s Social Security number on the side of…