Andrew Wyrich reports: New Jersey reached a settlement with a California app-developer who allegedly collected personal information of its customers – including children – and violated the Children’s Online Privacy Act. The company, Dokogeo, has agreed to pay $25,000 to the state. However, the payment will be suspended, and vacated after 10 years if it…
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Lavabit Strikes Back at Feds in Key Internet Privacy Case
Kevin Poulsen reports: Lawyers for secure email provider Lavabit just filed the reply brief in a case that will determine whether an internet company can be compelled to turn over the master encryption keys for its entire system to facilitate court-approved surveillance on a single user. It bears repeating: the government has no general entitlement…
NJ settles with Dataium over online history “sniffing”
Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman, the Division of Law and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced today that Dataium, a Tennessee-based data analytics company serving the automotive industry, has entered into a settlement agreement that resolves allegations it engaged in unlawful “history sniffing” by using software code to track Web sites visited by consumers…
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Investigate How Information Shared Via Online Social Networks Can Lead to Hiring Discrimination
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — A large-scale field experiment conducted by Carnegie Mellon University researchers has found evidence that sharing personal information via online social networks can lead to hiring discrimination. Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy at CMU’s H. John Heinz III College, and Christina Fong, senior research scientist at CMU’s Dietrich College of Humanities…