Last week, this site posted an update to the Canadian case where a customer sued Rogers Wireless for bundling her cell phone account without her authorization. Gabriela Nagy claims that her husband discovered that she had had an affair when he looked at the detailed phone records that were included in the newly bundled account….
Tag: privacy policy
On Google’s New Homepage, Privacy Fades Away
Michael Zimmer writes: Google has announced a new “feature” to its homepage: upon loading, only the Google logo, the search box and the search buttons are visible. The links to additional products, advanced search function, and the privacy policy, only fade in if the user moves the mouse. Mike goes on to discuss the implications…
Newspaper editor snitches on a commenter
An online editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has generated a lot of criticism for snitching about vulgar online comments to the commenter’s employer. Jacqui Cheng writes on Ars Technica: Internet commenters aren’t generally known for their eloquence and impeccable manners. Still, people’s tasteless little one-offs are relatively harmless most of the time—until the comment…
Cuil’s Famous Privacy Policy No Longer Protects Privacy
Michael Zimmer writes: Remember Cuil, the search engine launched in 2008 that was supposed to be a Google-killer? Didn’t think so. Anyway, one of Cuil’s touted competitive advantages was that it didn’t track user search queries. […] After about a year of futility, Cuil updated their privacy policy on June 1, 2009, noting that “We…