The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is dismissing congressional privacy concerns about the mass aggregation of consumer data. A bipartisan group of US House members sent letters to major data brokers about the privacy implications of data aggregation of consumer data. “By combining data from numerous offline and online sources, data brokers have developed hidden dossiers on…
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ACLU Sues FBI for New GPS Tracking Memos
Adrienne Lucas writes: Today the ACLU filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to force the FBI to release two memos guiding the bureau’s policy on GPS tracking. The memos were written in the wake of the Supreme Court’s January decision in U.S. v. Jones, which held that the Fourth Amendment applies when the government secretly…
In the wake of FTC settlements, confusion and dissent remain
In a somewhat frustrating Twitter chat following the Google settlement, one of the first questions – tweeted by Berin Szoka of TechFreedom – was, “How can message sent by today’s ruling be “clear” when there’s no admission of liability?” It was a question that had also been raised by one commissioner who had dissented from…
FTC Approves Final Settlement With Facebook
FTC cleared up another big case week – it finalized its settlement with Facebook. Despite receiving numerous comments on the proposed settlement, the Commission approved the final settlement without any changes: Following a public comment period, the FTC has accepted as final a settlement with Facebook resolving charges that Facebook deceived consumers by telling them they could keep…