Zack Whittaker reports on a leak by Oracle’s BlueKai that exposed tons of consumer data. Oracle’s not saying what companies are to blame for the leak, but the leak was described as involving “billions of records.” TechCrunch reviewed the data and found names, home addresses, email addresses and other identifiable data in the database. The…
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Broadband Industry Fights To Block Maine’s ‘Outlier’ Privacy Law
Wendy Davis reports: Maine’s new broadband privacy law is “an extreme outlier,” industry lobbying groups are telling a federal judge. The law, slated for enforcement in August, requires internet service providers to obtain customers’ opt-in consent before using web-browsing data for ad targeting. A coalition of broadband lobbying groups sued in February to block the…
Polonetsky: Are the Online Programs Your Child’s School Uses Protecting Student Privacy? Some Things to Look For
Jules Polonetsky writes about how distance learning by schools has raised a host of data privacy concerns for students. He writes, in part: But many of these federal and state protections apply only to companies whose products are designed for schools, or if schools have a privacy-protective contract with vendors. As schools rushed to provide…
I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit. This is not ok.
Heshie Brody writes: We had a baby recently and my wife and I were online shopping for breast pumps. Our health insurance company website redirected me to a website named aeroflowbreastpumps.com where they had a form that I could input my insurance details and this website would take care of the billing for me and have my…