Carrier IQ Responds More To Privacy Allegations, But Many Questions Remain
As more detail unfolds of companies swearing off any involvement with Carrier IQ (and some admitting using it for diagnostics) amid allegati… Read more »
More Carrier IQ: Nokia, Google, Verizon Say No Dice, Sprint, AT&T Say Yes
Several days into the Carrier IQ story — which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool — an… Read more »
FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be 'Liked'
The Federal Trade Commission today released a much-anticipated settlement with Facebook over a series of privacy breaches. The deal has some… Read more »
Twitter Buys Mobile Security Firm Whisper Systems: Enterprise Push Coming?
Another step in Twitter’s mobile acquisition trail: the microblogging and messaging service has acquired Whisper Systems, a enterprise mobil… Read more »
Can We Trust The Online Ad Industry To Regulate Itself?
photo: Better Advertising
Internet advertisers this month took a fresh stab at persuading federal privacy regulators to leave them alone. The advertisers are touting… Read more »
Do Courts Back Google and Facebook's View of Anonymity?
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Internet users who want to remain anonymous online have been pushing back against media companies’ efforts to strip them of their pseudonyms… Read more »
Wales' Ex First Minister Morgan Claims To Be NOTW Phone Hacking Victim
photo: National Assembly for Wales
The former First Minister of Wales says he and his politician wife have been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police because her phone was ha… Read more »
Metacafe Offers Consumers Up To $250 To Settle 'Super Cookie' Lawsuit
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Popular video site Metacafe has joined Quantcast, Interclick and a host of other firms in settling a lawsuit over its use of Flash “super-co… Read more »
Judge Throws Out Privacy Lawsuit Against LinkedIn
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A California man claimed that LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) “humiliated” him by sharing his Internet browsing history with marketers. In a big win f… Read more »
Regulator Tormenting Facebook Wants To Be Liked — On Facebook
Irony alert: The Federal Trade Commission may have just saddled Facebook with 20 years of privacy audits, but that’s not stopping it from ta… Read more »
Facebook Settlement Shows FTC Getting New Traction With Privacy Enforcement
Facebook is widely reported to be on the verge of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that will force it to tighten up its privac… Read more »
'I Am Not Incompetent' – James Murdoch Defends Himself
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James Murdoch’s very ability as an executive was effectively put on trial Thursday, as UK MPs investigating the phone “hacking” scandal queu… Read more »
James Murdoch Insists Ex Editor And Lawyer Kept Full Horror From Him
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James Murdoch said a trio of former News International executives had not briefed him fully enough, during his second questioning by MPs on… Read more »
Supreme Court Hears Privacy Case On GPS Tracking
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GPS is great if you’re hiking or looking for a restaurant on your iPhone. But how you do feel about letting the police place the tracking te… Read more »
Weather: Cloudy With A Chance Of Stalking
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It’s like being followed by the weatherman. A new class action suit against HTC makes some unsettling allegations about how the phone maker… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-20-11
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» MSN U.S. Head Scott Moore to Depart Portal (AllThingsD)
» Why Rupert Murdoch Should Announce A New Direction For Ne… Read more »
Is A Popular App Sniffing Users’ Text Messages?
photo: Whatsapp
Millions of people are embracing free mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and Kik as a way to avoid outrageous carrier charges for texti… Read more »
Actress Sues Amazon For Publishing Her Age
It’s no secret that Hollywood can be cruel to aging talent. Now, a 40-year-old Texas actress who lost acting gigs is taking Amazon (NSDQ: AM… Read more »
Updated: Kindle Fire Privacy Concerns–Is ‘Big Browser’ Watching You?
Fearing that Kindle Fire users who buy an e-book version of 1984 may not realize that they, too, are being watched, congressman Edward J. Ma… Read more »
Sony Hacked Again, But This Time, Comes Clean Quickly
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*Sony* was lambasted last spring after it took seven days to disclose that an attack on its video game network had led to what some called t… Read more »
Married Woman Whose Photo Was Used By Dating, Sex-Health Sites Sues Match.com
Anne Read Lattimore says she is not gay and has never been a member of the dating site Match.com. Yet, she has become a sort of public face… Read more »
Did B&N Pull A Fast One With Borders’ Customer List?
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In order to clinch its purchase of 40 million customer names from bankrupt Borders, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) made a series of promises to… Read more »
Facebook-Spotify Love-In Over-Estimated Users’ Social Lives
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Inside Spotify, staff say their big U.S. delay left them “constipated”. Now that its American passage has been unblocked, Spotify is free to… Read more »
Pandora Smacked With Class Action For Revealing User Profiles
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Read more »
Facebook Pushes Back Against ‘Super-Cookie’ Charges
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Another day, another call for a Facebook privacy investigation. Members of Congress and civil liberties groups are making separate requests… Read more »
New Deal Lets B&N Get Borders Customer List
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A bankruptcy judge in New York approved Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property, including its valuable cu… Read more »
I Made The Wrong Choice With Facebook
Yes, the new Facebook changes have caused a typical storm of user outrage: “You’ve changed things! How dare you!”
But I think this storm is… Read more »
Netflix Craves Facebook, Tells Congress: Scrap Video Privacy Law
Poor Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). On top of its other problems, an arcane law is spoiling its chance to participate in a new form of Facebook fun t… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-23-11: Google Spain; Apple Stock, Apple In China; ZTE; HP
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read more »
Privacy Policy May Sink B&N’s Purchase Of Borders Name
The messy liquidation of Borders has taken a new twist. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) indicated in a court filing late yesterday that it would… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
» Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buys Groupon Clone And Lau… Read more »
@ pcAds: The Right Label, At The Right Time
The relationship of consumers to online advertising is often hung up on the issue of privacy. Targeting is the name of the game, whether its… Read more »
Google-backed App Says It Will Make Geosocial More Effective, Less Creepy
Today marks the launch of EchoEcho, yet another app that lets smartphone users keep track of each other. The twist here is that the Google-b… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-7-11: Phone Tracking; RIM; iPhone 5; iPad Australia
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» A victory for civil liberties companies, and a possible shadow for some mobi… Read more »
Attention: The Online Ad Industry Is Now Officially Regulating Itself
Today is the day that online advertisers formally implement a code of conduct. The industry hopes it will persuade Congress to leave them al… Read more »
Twitter Ramps Up Its DC Presence, Hires New Public Policy Head
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A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
ComScore’s Main Web Tracking Tool Hit With Privacy Lawsuit
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comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is one of the biggest analytics companies out there, and its statistics about internet usage are quoted constantly in… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Missteps: Places Axed; HTC Status Phone In Question
Facebook has been sizing up the mobile world with hungry eyes for a while now — more than one-third of the social network’s 750-million-plu… Read more »
Facebook Users Get A New Way To Fight Embarrassing Photos
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Facebook has announced a re-vamping of its privacy settings today, with the intent of making clear to users just how much sharing they’re do… Read more »
Google Street View Moves Into Israel, With Conditions
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Google’s Street View cars will finally begin cruising the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but it’s the most heavily-regulated launch yet… Read more »
