Maria Dinzio reports: A maker of games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch collected players’ phone numbers without their knowledge, according to a federal class action. The class claims Storm8, creator of “iMobster” and “Vampires Live,” wrote its software to collect phone numbers automatically when players download the games. Storm8 acknowledged on Aug. 26…
ContactPoint database of 11 million children’s details to go ahead despite security fears
Martin Beckford and Graeme Paton report: Ministers are pressing ahead with the introduction of ContactPoint to every local authority in the country after claiming that a pilot project has proved a success. They say the long-delayed £224 project will make England’s 11million young people safer by providing a single register that can be used by…
New ‘smart’ electrical meters raise fresh privacy issues for consumers
Daniel Silva reports: The new ”smart meters” utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of information about consumer habits they reveal, experts said Friday. The devices send data on household energy consumption directly to utilities on a regular basis, allowing the firms…
UK: Only a ‘minimal’ invasion of privacy: Snooping council spied on family 21 times in 3 weeks
A council which used controversial laws to spy on a mother and her family 21 times in three weeks insisted today that its actions only ‘minimally’ invaded their privacy. Poole Borough Council had also used Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) legislation on two other occasions to determine whether families were living in the right…