Grant Gross reports: A privacy and credit-reporting complaint filed by the Center for Democracy and Technology against people-search Web site Spokeo.com is based on flawed assumptions about the site’s business model, a Spokeo executive said. The CDT complaint, filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Wednesday, alleges that Spokeo violates the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting…
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CDT Files FTC Complaint Against Spokeo
Sean Brooks of CDT writes: Today we filed a complaint with the FTC and multiple state attorney generals’ offices against online data broker and aggregator Spokeo, Inc. We hope the FTC will view this complaint as an opportunity to tackle the growing issue of online — and offline — data aggregators offering unregulated consumer profiles….
Arkansas AG has privacy concerns about Spokeo.com
From the press release: An Internet site that aggregates personal information from public sources is causing privacy concerns for consumers across the country. Spokeo.com displays personal information many people are not comfortable with being publicly available on a widely accessible search site. It is one of many similar web sites. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel…
Your personal information posted online
Jeremy Wolf reports: It can list your address, a picture of your home, how much it cost, how long you have lived there, your approximate age and income, your relationship status and more. And it is online for anyone to see. Spokeo.com takes information from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and from phone…