Adam Liptak reports: “On the Internet, the First Amendment is a local ordinance,” said Fred H. Cate, a law professor at Indiana University. He was talking about last week’s ruling from an Italian court that Google executives had violated Italian privacy law by allowing users to post a video on one of its services. In…
Category: Misc
Should all sensitive data be treated the same?
Erica Newland writes: There was a discussion over on ReadWriteWeb yesterday about whether location information should be given the same privacy protections as medical data. The blog post made reference to the recent testimony of CDT General Counsel John Morris on location privacy but challenged his assertion that “[protecting location information] will require location be…
Which companies did we trust to protect our privacy?
The results of Ponemon Institute’s annual Most Trusted Companies for Privacy Study are out. From the press release, the top five most trusted companies were: American Express, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett Packard, and E-Bay: The rankings were derived from responses given by 6,627 U.S. adults that included more than 38,000 individual company ratings, 229…
FTC Issues Report of 2009 Top Consumer Complaints
The Federal Trade Commission today released a report listing top complaints consumers filed with the agency in 2009. It shows that while identity theft remains the top complaint category, identity theft complaints declined 5 percentage points from 2008. The FTC is releasing a new animated video showing how people can file a complaint, and offers…