Stephanie Bodoni reports: Google Inc. was criticized by Germany data privacy officials over plans to give German property owners a four-week deadline to stop their buildings showing up on the company’s Street View mapping service. […] “Objections should be possible at all times,” Germany’s Federal Commissioner of Data Protection Peter Schaar said on his blog…
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InPsych app is a privacy threat – psychologist
Psychologist John Grohol of Psych Central posts this warning on his site: I’m off to attend the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) in San Diego today, but before I go, I do have two APA-related news items to post. The first is about the APA’s social networking application it deployed for this…
Washington settles with Intelius; firm to pay $1.3 million
Hundreds of thousands of consumers may have unknowingly enrolled in membership programs while using Web sites owned by Bellevue, Wash.-based Intelius. A two-year investigation by the Washington Attorney General’s Office alleges that Intelius received thousands of consumer complaints regarding unauthorized enrollment in the programs and that company management including CEO Naveen Jain knew about the complaints…
Plaintiff who challenged FBI’s national security letters reveals concerns
Ellen Nakashima reports: For six years, Nicholas Merrill has lived in a surreal world of half-truths, where he could not tell even his fiancee, his closest friends or his mother that he is “John Doe” — the man who filed the first-ever court challenge to the FBI’s ability to obtain personal data on Americans without…