Grant Gross reports: The maker of so-called spyware program WebWatcher can be sued for violating state and federal wiretap laws, a U.S. appeals court has ruled, in a case that may have broader implications for online monitoring software and software as a service. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected WebWatcher vendor Awareness Technologies’ motion…
Category: Online
Are Nashville Uber Drivers Exposing Your Private Info – Including Your Home Address & When You’re Out of Town? [Updated]
Evan Ransom reports: Are Nashville Uber drivers placing your privacy at risk? In HUNDREDS of screenshots sent to EastNashvilleNews over the weekend, it appears that when Uber drivers are sharing info among their trips among each other and their friends, the passenger/customer’s address is shown prominently in the screenshots. While this is alarming on it’s…
Computer scientists reveal history of third-party web tracking
Researchers have presented the first-ever comprehensive analysis of third-party web tracking across three decades and a new tool, TrackingExcavator, which they developed to extract and analyze tracking behaviors on a given web page. They saw a four-fold increase in third-party tracking on top sites from 1996 to 2016, and mapped the growing complexity of trackers…
Facebook legal settlement risks teens’ privacy
Robert Fellmeth, a professor of public-interest law and director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, writes: A class-action settlement covers adult users of Facebook, but also 11 million teenagers whose need for privacy is underlined by their immaturity and the angst when they discover their posts or photos…