From The Chronicle of Data Protection: Today, the White House released a report titled, “Big Data and Differential Pricing.” The report examines the concern that companies will use the consumer information they collect to more effectively charge different prices to different customers. While it finds that there are substantive concerns about differential pricing in the…
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FTC Approves Final Orders In PaymentsMD Privacy Case
After a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders resolving complaints that PaymentsMD, LLC and its former CEO, Michael C. Hughes, violated consumers’ privacy by collecting personal medical information without their consent. The settlements were first announced in December, 2014. In its complaints, the FTC alleged that Payments MD and Hughes altered the signup…
GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, court rules
Owen Bowcott reports: Mass surveillance of the internet by the British monitoring agency GCHQ was unlawful until the end of last year, the UK’s most secretive court has ruled. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled on Friday that the agency’s access to intercepted information obtained by the US National Security Agency (NSA) breached human rights law….
US legal opinion upheld privacy protections of census data
AP reports: A newly released legal opinion says the Commerce Department is not required to provide census data to federal law enforcement or national security investigators. The Justice Department this week turned over a 2010 opinion from its Office of Legal Counsel after dropping a public records court fight with a privacy group. Read more…