Kevin Bankston writes: Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy…
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House Passes Data Accountability Bill
Roy Mark reports: The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Dec. 8 requiring data brokers to establish procedures to verify the accuracy of information that identifies individuals in their databases and to allow consumers to access and request correction of incorrect information. The Data Accountability and Trust Act, approved on a voice vote, would also…
80,000 Facebook users duped in bait-and-switch
Swedes received a lesson in the internet’s power for deception when a Facebook group claiming to support heart research suddenly changed into one aimed at scrapping women’s right to vote. The Facebook group originally promised it would send three kronor ($0.42) to organizations involved in heart research for every member that joined. Membership in the…
Google CEO sets privacy tongues a-lashing
Cade Metz reports on a comment by Google CEO Eric Schmidt during a CNBC interview that has set tongues a-clucking and a-lashing on the ‘net. If you’re concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then you must be doing something you shouldn’t be doing. At least that’s the word from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “If…