Alexis Keenan reports: Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey was sued on Monday by a shareholder claiming he breached his fiduciary duties to the social media company by giving advertisers broad access to users’ private data. The shareholder, suing on behalf of Twitter, alleges that the other company Dorsey heads, payments company Square (SQ), “benefitted wildly from this disregard…
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How to stop your emails from being tracked
I don’t know about you, but I hate it when businesses try to track whether I have opened their email or not. Would they come into my home to see if I opened their catalogue or mail? I think trackers in email should just be flat-out illegal, but since they are still a thing, Barbara…
PH: Online Lending Firm Found Criminally Liable for Violating Data Privacy Law
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has recommended the prosecution of Fynamics Lending Inc., the operator of the PondoPeso online lending application which has reportedly been harassing and public-shaming delinquent borrowers, for violating the data privacy law. In a 40-page decision, the Commission chaired by Privacy Commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboro determined the criminal liability of Fynamics…
Facebook Starts Blocking Sensitive Medical Data Shared by Apps Over Privacy Concerns
AFP reports: Facebook has started blocking sensitive health information that third-party apps had been sharing with the social network in violation of its own rules, said New York officials who investigated the situation. Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York…