From the Federal Trade Commission: A developer of mobile applications, including children’s games for the iPhone and iPod touch, will pay $50,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule by illegally collecting and disclosing personal information from tens of thousands of…
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LinkedIn slammed for opt-out setting which could erode user privacy (updated with link to LinkedIn’s response)
LinkedIn users are being urged to contact the company to complain after it was revealed that a change in privacy policy now allows third-party advertisers to harvest users’ profile information and pictures in their ads by default. Blogger Steve Woodruff appears to have been the first to notice the changes to LinkedIn’s Terms of Use, which force…
S. Korea plans to scrap online real-name system
It appears that a massive data breach affecting 35 million South Koreans who use popular portal and social networking sites Nate and Cyworld has served as a wake-up call for the government: The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the…
On Its Own, Europe Backs Web Privacy Fights
Suzanne Daley reports: MADRID — All 90 people wanted information deleted from the Web. Among them was a victim of domestic violence who discovered that her address could easily be found through Google. Another, well into middle age now, thought it was unfair that a few computer key strokes could unearth an account of her…