Seen on Risky Biz News by Catalin Cimpanu: Firefox to remove DNT: Mozilla will remove the DoNotTrack feature from Firefox next year. The feature was introduced in 2011 as a way for users to tell websites not to track them. Mozilla says it’s removing the feature because most websites don’t respect it. DoNotTrack will be removed with Firefox…
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French internet operator fined $53 million for unsolicited ads and tracking users without consent
Suzanne Smalley reports: France’s data privacy regulator (CNIL) has fined the country’s biggest internet provider €50 million ($53 million) for sending customers ads they didn’t ask for and for continuing to use tracking code to monitor users’ activities even after they withdrew consent for the practice. The telecom giant Orange S.A. offers an electronic messaging…
US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump
Jon Brodkin reports: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is trying to rein in data brokers that sell Americans’ personal and financial information with a new rule that would classify the brokers as consumer reporting agencies. But the proposal has a dim future in the Trump administration, and the CFPB itself could face new limits…
FTC Takes Action Against Mobilewalla for Collecting and Selling Sensitive Location Data
The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from selling sensitive location data, including data that reveals the identity of an individual’s private home, to settle allegations the data broker sold such information without taking reasonable steps to verify consumers’ consent. Under the FTC’s proposed settlement order, Mobilewalla will also be banned from collecting…