Cindy Cohn of EFF has a commentary on Google’s new privacy policy for Google Books that suggests that the new policy is better, but not sufficient. Cohen writes: Late yesterday afternoon, September 3, 2009, Google finally issued a privacy policy for Google Books, both the current service and the extensive new book-related services they hope…
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Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats
Deborah Yao of Associated Press reports that: Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids’ online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children’s chat messages – and sell the marketing data gathered. Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo,…
Plaxo revises privacy policy
Plaxo‘s privacy policies are changing. According to a notice on their site, their privacy policy will be changing on October 6. They explain: Just as today we allow folks to sign up and sign in to Plaxo using identities from external websites, later this year we will allow you to sign up or sign in…
Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Rachel Metz of Associated Press reports that Amazon.com is offering free replacement books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels “1984” and “Animal Farm” were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. The deletion led to a class-action lawsuit started by one student who was using the book for…