It looks like rent-to-own retailer Aaron’s Inc. may have stepped in it–or at least stepped all over its customers’ privacy rights.
According to the legal firm representing a Casper, Wyoming couple, rental outfit “can secretly monitor ‘rent-to-own’ computer customers’ electronic communications in violation of federal …
In the U.S., when you start tracking users’ whereabouts you face tons of scrutiny and a software update that will fix the problem. In South Korea, they just raid your office.
Google’s Seoul office got sacked today by South Korean authorities; police suspected that its mobile advertising unit, AdMob, was illegally collecting …
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I’ve been getting a lot of urgent messages from major companies I do business with lately. Urgent messages telling me that information I gave them has been stolen by unknown parties.
Yup, I’m not only a PlayStation Network member–and therefore a victim of the current Sony security breach–but also a customer of at least three …
When Facebook Groups launched last October, it came with a fatal flaw for those worried about keeping their activities private: Any group member was able to invite other people in without permission.
It was an idealistic approach to social networking that assumed groups would regulate themselves according to societal pressure. Invite …
With today’s estimated $135 million acquisition of Where.com – the hyperlocal media company that will soon offer deals based on user geotargeting – eBay not only adds another channel to its growing number of revenue streams, but also plants its foot firmly in the growing world of offline commerce.
Under eBay’s PayPal arm, …
One of these days, News Corp may get some good news from ailing social network MySpace, but today’s not that day: The media monolith’s being sued for sharing user data with third parties without consent. This, despite claiming it told users access to such information was restricted.
The class-action lawsuit, Virtue vs. Myspace Inc., …
Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon are most willing to throw users under the bus when it comes to privacy, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Looking to rally users around the issue of privacy, the EFF has drawn up a handy chart for how tech companies respond to government requests for data. The advocacy group has also …
Senators John McCain and John Kerry have introduced an online privacy bill that would require companies to inform consumers when their personal data is being collected for marketing purposes and how it’s being shared.
“The bill, if it becomes law, would require companies to tell consumers why data was being
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Auf wiedersehen, Google Street View. There’s going to be no more new street view pictures in Germany, says the search engine company.
Google isn’t taking any of the old Street View pictures down, but they’re not adding or updating any either. Street View was just launched in Germany last summer, but was scrutinized for its …
Pandora might not be the only company getting hit with subpoenas. If the Wall Street Journal is correct, a major shake-up could be involved, affecting hundreds of smartphone apps. Federal prosecutors are investigating whether these mobile apps are transmitting information about users without their proper consent and knowledge.
The …
Google and the Federal Trade Commission just agreed to make nice over allegations the company’s online conversation-starter Google Buzz violated privacy rights and tricked users into trying the service.
Not that Google’s off the hook. The proposed settlement would task Google with putting into place a “comprehensive privacy program,” …
This energetic young man is Tom Scott, making an entertaining presentation at Ignite London a few weeks ago, and very cleverly opening everyone’s eyes to the issues surrounding online privacy. Or the lack of it.
For those of you unable to watch the video, in it Tom pulls live data from the internet in real time, plucking personal …
