The FTC has released The National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2011 and it contains some interesting data. Consider this graphic, depicting the number of registrations per year and the number of consumer complaints per year: Inspection of the data indicates that: (1) the number of active registrations continues to rise each…
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Facebook Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises
From their press release: The social networking service Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public. The proposed settlement requires Facebook to take several steps to make sure it lives up to…
Judges out of touch on privacy issues, says Ontario privacy czar
Vito Pilieci reports: Canadian judges and politicians have grown too old and out of touch with the reality of today’s digital world to be trusted to make sound policy decisions, according to Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner. Speaking at the Privacy & Information Security Congress 2011 conference in Ottawa on Monday, Ann Cavoukian expressed her frustration with…
Courts Grapple with Concept of “Harm” in Online Privacy Suits
Glenn G. Lammi is clearly not a fan of the type of class action lawsuits we’ve been seeing on a weekly basis: The fundamental legal principle that only those who have been “harmed” can sue in U.S. courts is being put to the test by the ever-evolving, subjective concept of “privacy” in the equally organic…