Stephanie Bodoni reports: Google Inc. (GOOG) was fined 900,000 euros ($1.2 million) by Spain’s data-protection watchdog for illegally collecting and using users’ personal data. Google is guilty of “three serious violations” of Spanish data-privacy law for collecting personal information across nearly 100 services and products in Spain without in many cases giving details “about what…
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Data Broker Removes Rape-Victims List After Journal Inquiry
If you missed Senator Rockefeller’s hearing on data brokers yesterday, Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum made a powerful point in her opening statement about how data brokers have no shame. She cited the fact that brokers were selling lists of rape victims’ names for 7.9 cents per name. It didn’t take look for…
Peter Fleischer’s Italian nightmare is finally over
Peter writes: An eight-year legal saga has now come to an end. Yesterday, in Rome, the Italian Supreme Court (Cassazione) acquitted me, as well as two other Googlers, for violating Italian privacy law in a case that stemmed from a user-generated video. Read more on his blog.
Marvel, Sanrio accused of ignoring privacy rules meant to protect children
Hayley Tsukayama reports: Iron Man, Captain America and Spider-Man greet visitors to Disney’s MarvelKids.com Web site, but parents may be surprised to learn that these superheroes may also open the door to tools that track their children’s activities across the Web, according to federal complaints to be filed Wednesday. The filings with the Federal Trade…