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…
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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…
Google updates transparency report
Pointer: Google has updated its transparency report. In a companion piece on their public policy blog, Richard Salgado, Google’s Legal Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security writes: In a year in which government surveillance has dominated the headlines, today we’re updating our Transparency Report for the eighth time. Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from…