The Tobacco Institute of Japan, the industry body of tobacco manufacturers, has turned over vending machine logs on individuals’ cigarette purchases and their personal information to prosecutors for investigative purposes, informed sources said. The logs showing the use of taspo smart cards included records of when and at which vending machines the smokers bought cigarettes,…
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Google flames Tory MP Davis on privacy claims
Google had better hope former Tory shadow minister David Davis doesn’t return to a senior role in a future Conservative government. Its chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has given Davis a tongue-lashing for opposing Google Health and criticising Google’s privacy record. Davis was writing in The Sunday Times in opposition to Tories’ wish to give…
Legal restrictions won’t ensure privacy online
In response to Jonathan Zittrain’s op-ed, “Lost in the Cloud,” Ryan Radia, Information Policy Analyst at Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes to the NY Times: […] Mr. Zittrain proposes a “fair practices law” that would require companies to release personal data back to users upon request. Such a rule may sound workable, but purging specific data…
Balancing consumer choice in the info privacy debate
More on the recent panel discussion sponsored by the Technology Policy Institute…. Advertisers need to consider consumers’ right to privacy when they collect information on individual internet consumers, a panel of academics, non-profits and industry officials agreed on Friday. The experts spoke during a panel discussion sponsored by the Technology Policy Institute, a market-oriented think…