Jaikumar Vijayan reports: In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company’s controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. In a letter addressed to LimeWire CEO George Searle , FTC associate director Mary Engle said the agency’s decision came after LimeWire incorporated safeguards…
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Never Make a Promise You Can’t Keep- Especially in Your Privacy Policy
Kevin Khurana of Proskauer writes: Expect the unexpected from your Web site privacy policy. In a handful of cases, including two which were recently decided, companies have been thwarted in various, unexpected ways by the commitments made in their online privacy policies. Are your intellectual property litigators reading your privacy policy? In FenF, LLC v….
Facebook Places Privacy Falls Short, Part 2: Opting-Out
Mike Zimmer writes: A few days ago I blogged about how I was able to check my wife into a local liquor store using Facebook Places without her permission, despite Facebook’s insistence that “No one can be checked in to a location without their explicit permission”. This check-in has remained visible in my news feed,…
CT: Proposal would track students
Erin Cox reports that a district in Connecticut is thinking of making students carry chipped ID cards so that they can track them. Yes, really. The New Canaan school district is thinking about electronically tracking their students. Many students are not pleased with the idea that they could end up testing new tracking technology. […]…