You’ve no doubt heard of 118 800: the directory inquiries service for mobile phones prompted predictable howls of outrage when it was announced last week. The 15 million-strong database was gleaned from buying mailing lists, among other things. We’re going to stick our necks out here and say we’re not bothered. We met with 118…
Employee Privacy Violated?
If you join an invite-only forum and post about work from your own home computer on your own time, can your employer fire you for joining the forum? Fox News interviews an employee who is suing over that issue in the first clip below. CNN’s clip piece on the story, below, provides a response from…
How to Opt-Out from Behavioral Advertising
How to opt-out from some behavioral advertising, from the NAI. Of course, I would prefer that the whole system be opt-in.
Mass. legislator: Revisit data security law
After months of outspoken complaints from business leaders who said Massachusetts data security laws were next to impossible to follow, one lawmaker wants to make compliance easier for the smallest and largest of businesses. A bill sponsored by Sen. Michael Morrissey, D-Quincy, would rewrite the law passed in 2007, essentially creating separate paths to compliance…