Tag Archives: Privacy

Senate bill would set consumer privacy rights

By: Yahoo! News: Security News – AP – A new Senate bill introduced Tuesday would establish a “privacy bill of rights” to set ground rules for companies that collect consumer data, including personal data amassed on the Internet and then mined to target online advertising.
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- About time! The complete article states big companies such [...]

Lawsuits to strengthen Net traffic rules possible

By:Yahoo! News: Internet News – Reuters – Public interest groups are keeping the option of lawsuits against the Federal Communications Commission on the table to fight for stronger Internet “neutrality” rules, an executive at a public interest law firm said on Saturday.
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- There has been much speculation on this subject, and we have already seen [...]

Farmville caught sharing user’s data with partners and web trackers

Some of Facebook’s popular apps have been sharing your name – and, in some cases the names of your friends – to advertising and Internet tracking companies, according to an investigative report published by the Wall Street Journal late Sunday.
Among them is Zynga’s Farmville, with 59 million users, Frontierville and Texas HoldEm Poker. Farmville reportedly [...]