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…
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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…
UK: Private investigators convicted of unlawfully obtaining personal information
Two men who ran a company that tricked organizations into revealing personal details about customers have today been found guilty of conspiring to breach the Data Protection Act. Barry Spencer, 41, and Adrian Stanton, 40, ran ICU Investigations Ltd in Feltham, Middlesex. The pair were convicted at Isleworth Crown Court of conspiring to unlawfully obtain…
LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
DoctorBeet writes: Earlier this month I discovered that my new LG Smart TV was displaying ads on the Smart landing screen. After some investigation, I found a rather creepy corporate video advertising their data collection practices to potential advertisers. It’s quite long but a sample of their claims are as follows: LG Smart Ad analyses users favourite…