Lucian Constantin reports: Facebook Gifts, the new social gifting service launched by Facebook on Thursday, might encourage users to expose information like their home addresses, birth date, clothing or shoe size that could pose security and privacy risks, according to security experts. Facebook used to have a Gift Shop application that allowed users to send…
EPIC FOIA Uncovers Google’s Privacy Assessment for Consent Order Compliance
From EPIC: Through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC has obtained Google’s initial privacy assessment. The assessment was required by a settlementbetween Google and the FTC that followed from a 2010 complaint filed by EPIC over Google Buzz. The FTC has withheld from public disclosure information about the audit process, procedures to assess…
Boston Police Store License Plate Data For “Intelligence” Purposes
Kade Crockford writes: This summer ACLU affiliates all around the country filed open-records requests seeking information about how government agencies are using automated license plate readers. One set of records, released this week to the ACLU of Massachusetts by the police department here in Boston, provides a snapshot of the data-collection practices that are taking place around the…
Do Not Track arrives for mobile apps, courtesy of Apple and Google (really)
Jim Brock writes: Google’s ad network for mobile apps, Admob, released their new development tools for the latest Apple mobile operating system, iOS6. This is the kit that mobile application developers use to integrate AdMob advertising into their iPhone and iPad apps. In the new specification Google has adopted Apple’s new functionality for “Identifier for…