Facebook will be revamping their privacy controls over the next few weeks. The plan is to consolidate existing privacy pages more than two dozen settings into a single privacy page. But at least one person on the conference call today was left with nagging questions. Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb comments: But it is pretty clear…
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Banks: All your cellphone are belong to us
I was grumbling at a privacy conference about my bank’s privacy policy and that it seemed impossible to get a bank to truly delete records and take back your data from affiliates if you no longer had an account. Why should we be contacted in perpetuity if we are no longer customers? In response to…
Beijing Delays Rule on Software Censor
China’s state-run news agency said late Tuesday that the government had postponed a requirement, set to take effect Wednesday, to equip all newly sold computers with software to filter out objectionable Internet content. Beijing has faced fierce criticism at home and abroad after the requirement became public in early June. China’s own Internet community has…