What rights, if any, do we have to be let alone while we are in public spaces? While privacy law scholars like Professor Woodrow Hartzog develop their thoughts on privacy in public, I have a simple principle that guides me when responding to privacy intrusive behavior occurring in public spaces on the Internet: Any right…
Category: Online
Canadian website publishing debtors’ personal info pulls plug after lawsuit
Beatrice Britneff reports: The man behind a website that named and shamed debtors who owe money as a result of court judgments resisted the Ontario government’s request that he “cease and desist” — but ultimately backed down after the federal privacy watchdog took him to Federal Court. Until December last year, publicexecutions.ca would publish names…
Singapore watchdog fines Social Metric $18,000 for data protection breach
Eleanor Dickinson reports: Digital marketing agency Social Metric has been rapped by Singapore’s data privacy watchdog for a “flagrant privacy breach” that saw peoples’ personal details made available online. The agency, which is owned by New Union, was fined S$18,000 by Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission for displaying personal details of 558 people – including 155…
Offline privacy norms apply online
WARC writes: Online data collection and use that run counter to the sort of behaviour one would expect in the real world can have a significant impact on purchase intent. Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Leslie K. John, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, Tami Kim, assistant professor of marketing at…