David Meyer reports: The campaign group Europe v Facebook has decried a decision by the Luxembourg data protection commissioner, which found that Microsoft and its Skype subsidiary have not broken EU privacy law by sending Europeans’ data back to the U.S. The National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) said on Monday that the data transfer…
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The ‘Do Not Track Kids’ Act is back
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) with Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Thursday introduced the “Do Not Track Kids” Act, comprehensive children’s online privacy legislation. The bills (S. 1700 and H.R. 3481), which amends the historic Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), will extend,…
EPIC Urges FCC to Investigate AT&T’s Practice of Selling Consumer Phone Records
From the good folks at EPIC: In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, EPIC urged the FCC to determine whether AT&T violated the Communications Act when it sold private consumer call detail information to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Central Intelligence Agency. EPIC’s letter follows an earlier letter where EPIC asked the FCC to resolve whether Verizon violated the…
States Enter $17 Million Multistate Settlement With Google Over Tracking Of Consumers
From NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced his office has entered into multistate a settlement agreement with Google Inc. concerning its unauthorized placement of cookies on computers using Apple Safari Web browsers during 2011 and 2012. Of the $17 million in settlement money, New York will receive $899,580. “Consumers should…