Amanda Bronstad has an update on a case covered previously on this blog: An actress who sued IMDb.com for publishing her real age has appealed a verdict against her, and the entertainment industry’s most powerful unions back her claims. Junie Hoang, whose legal name is Huong Hoang, sued IMDb.com and parent Amazon.com Inc. after the…
Category: Business
Staking out Twitter and Facebook, LexisNexis service lets police poke perps
Sean Gallagher reports: Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies, thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence. At last month’s International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Philadelphia, LexisNexis showed off a new tool it will bundle with…
What Pandora Tells Advertisers About You When You’re Listening To Music
Richard Feloni reports: Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook all have their own tracking systems that may signal impending doom for the traditional cookie. First-party tracking can provide advertisers with much more accurate results than cookies, due to the access these companies have to user data. Online radio service Pandora recently adopted its own cookie replacement, and it…
Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace – GAO
From the highlights of a GAO report issued in September and just posted today on GAO’s site: No overarching federal privacy law governs the collection and sale of personal information among private-sector companies, including information resellers. Instead, a variety of laws tailored to specific purposes, situations, or entities governs the use, sharing, and protection of…