Should Apple Pay For The Bad Deeds Of Its App Makers?
A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address… Read more »
Lawsuits Mushroom Over Google Browser Tracking
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The legal fallout continues over Google’s decision to circumvent privacy settings on the iPhone. Court records show that there are now at le… Read more »
Google Privacy D-Day Arrives, Users Search For Snooki
At midnight, Google’s official blog posted a notice confirming that the company’s new privacy policy went into effect. Reaction so far sugge… Read more »
Privacy Group Whiffs On Attempt To Enforce FTC’s Rules On Google
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A federal judge today declined to order the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) over impending changes to th… Read more »
Stanford’s Jonathan Mayer On Fixing Privacy
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Jonathan Mayer is the grad student whose research on internet tracking set off an explosive series of media reports and a flurry of privacy… Read more »
Big Tech, Obama And The Politics Of Privacy
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The White House announced major privacy initiatives this week amidst a growing hubbub over how technology companies use consumers’ personal… Read more »
Google Browser-gate: Here Come The Lawsuits
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Like night follows day, class action lawsuits follow privacy breaches. The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) reported on Friday that Google (N… Read more »
Google On Defensive Yet Again In Snafu Over Ad-Tracking In Safari Browsers
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012: the latest comes after an investigation by The Wall Street J… Read more »
Google: Android Won’t Share Personal Info With Apps Unless You Let It
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In response to the uproar over how mobile iOS applications have had access to address-book data without having to inform the user, Google (N… Read more »
Updated: Time For Apple To Fix How iOS Handles Contact Data
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A week after mobile social network Path found itself in the tech industry spotlight for uploading iOS contacts without explicit permission,… Read more »
Update: Netflix Pays $9 Million To Settle Video Privacy Lawsuit
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) disclosed this afternoon that it will pay to settle nationwide claims that it illegally retained customers’ rental hist… Read more »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more »
Europe Wants Google To Freeze Its New Privacy Policy
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An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Art… Read more »
A Second News International Paper Faces Questions In Hacking Investigation
The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, poli… Read more »
Google Buys Online Ads In Pushback Over Privacy
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is purchasing display ads on websites like the *Washington Post*, an unusual move that is part of the company’s strained… Read more »
Feds Warn Of Data Deletion In Megaupload Case, Other Docs Still Under Seal
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US agents have finished copying data from servers that contain information on Megaupload, the controversial file-sharing site shut down earl… Read more »
Google, Facebook, Twitter Execs Grilled By UK MPs On Privacy
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-b… Read more »
Sign Of The Times: Google Graffiti Pops Up In NYC
Everyone wants to chime in on Google’s privacy polices including, it seems, graffiti artists. In recent weeks, an unflattering version of th… Read more »
Twitter Faces Censorship Backlash
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The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it wit… Read more »
Update 2: Privacy Alert: O2 Fixes Hole That Shared Users’ Phone Numbers
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Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile… Read more »
Amazon Lawsuit Tests ‘No Harm, No Foul’ Rule For Leaked Personal Info
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) subsidiary Zappos, an online shoe retailer, faces a second lawsuit over a hacking incident involving 24 million customer… Read more »
Google’s New Privacy Policy Aims At Integrating YouTube
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will use email and a message on its home page to notify users about a new privacy policy that will go into effect this M… Read more »
News Corp Settles Hack Claims On Basis Execs Lied And Destroyed Evidence
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News Corp could be laden with a multi-million pound UK compensation bill after agreeing to settle claims on the basis its executives tried t… Read more »
Amazon Hit With Class Action Over Zappos Data Breach
Shoe retailer Zappos is facing a national class action suit one day after it warned customers that its servers had been hacked. Read more »
What The Analysts Asked Yahoo Today, And How The New CEO Responded
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read more »
What's Coming In 2012: Digital Advertising, Up Close And Personal
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This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
Wanna Download A Free Movie With No Legal Worries? Go Dutch.
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Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to ex… Read more »
FTC Calls For Comments On Facial Recognition Technology
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Devices that treat our face as a fingerprint are one of the more unnerving technologies of the information age. Privacy regulators are start… Read more »
Updated: Facebook Timeline And Ads: Real Estate For The Highest Bidder?
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A report out today, taking its cue from the new Timeline feature that is now getting rolled out to Facebook’s 800-million-plus users, allege… Read more »
For Users Outside The U.S., Facebook Is Getting A Little More Private
Facebook is no stranger to accusations about how it treats users’ privacy — something that has come under increased public scrutiny in the… Read more »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
Facebook Timeline Is Here For All: Creepy But Beautiful
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Facebook created a stir earlier this year by saying it would replace its profile page with a chronology called Timeline that is created from… Read more »
Nielsen: Android And Apple Dominate The App Space But Mobile Browser Rules
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Murdoch's BlackBerry Mail Trail: He Was Warned Of Phone Hacking
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James Murdoch has suddenly found an e-mail which alerted him to phone hacking at News International – despite having previously blamed two o… Read more »
Europe Thinks Open Data Could Add €40 Billion To Its Economy
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The European Commission is proposing to legislate to force all the continent’s public bodies to open up their data for re-use by citizens an… Read more »
Under Fire, Amazon Says Kindle Fire Is Getting An Update Within Two Weeks
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Several weeks into the U.S.-only sales debut of the Kindle Fire, and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has been facing up to mixed reviews for the tablet,… Read more »
As Facebook Rolls Out Timeline, Netflix Inches Closer To U.S. Sharing Deal
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Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscri… Read more »
Five Solutions To The Privacy Problem: Why They Work And Why They Don't
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Last week brought alarming accounts about how a firm called Carrier IQ may have used key logging technology to record millions of phone mess… Read more »
Why Both You And Carrier IQ Are Pawns In The Fight For Mobile Data
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There is no question that we love our mobile devices. There’s also no question that we are paranoid about how much of ourselves we pour into… Read more »
Samsung And HTC Hit By Wiretapping Lawsuit Over Tracking Software [UPDATED]
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The swirling controversy over a company that reportedly installed tracking software on users’ mobile phones has already produced its first t… Read more »
