Santa’s Privacy Policy By Laurence Hughes: At Santa’s Workshop, your privacy is important to us. What follows is an explanation of how we collect and safeguard your personal information; the kind of information we collect; and your choices regarding our use and disclosure of this information. […] The letters also provide another important piece of…
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A Reality Check on Righteous Privacy Indignation
Chris Maxcer comments: According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some of my iPhone apps are spying on me. They apparently know when I use them, my location, my age and my gender. Then they send it all to marketing companies. This wouldn’t happen if we’d all pay full price for everything we use…
What was the most important privacy story of 2010?
In a privacy chat on Twitter yesterday, one question posed to the group was “What was the most important privacy story of 2010?” While others mentioned online developments such as Facebook privacy breaches making people more aware of privacy issues or federal agencies issuing privacy reports, I had mentioned that I thought Tyler’s Clementi’s suicide…
Wikileaks’ Assange Says He Wants Privacy Over Rape Accusation
Robert Hutton reports: Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, said he wanted to remain “a private person” in respect of a rape claim against him in Sweden that he said is the result of women who “got into a bit of a tizzy.” […] “I’ve always tried in this case and in my other…