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,…
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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. […]…
UK: TalkTalk defends monitoring while critics claim it violates law
Dean Wilson reports more on the controversy concerning TalkTalk: TalkTalk has today issued a statement defending its recent action of spying on customers, reiterating its assertion that its website tracker is only part of its anti-malware program, not an attempt to invade users’ privacy. It said that its approach is designed to make the internet…
Face recognition software raises privacy concerns
Jonathan Harwood reports that concerns about some software previously mentioned on this site continue to mount: The news that facial recognition software is to be made freely available to web developers has raised concerns about the pervasive nature of the internet and the threat it poses to people’s privacy. The latest scare story concerns Face.com,…