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Geotag, You’re It! What Your Smartphone Might Be Saying Behind Your Back, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, October 18, 2010 “Snap a photo of a sunset with your iPhone and you can upload it to Twitter with a few clicks. But your smartphone might be transmitting more than a pretty photograph. It could be collecting and storing …
Identity Theft Trends, Patterns, and Typologies Reported in Suspicious Activity Reports Filed by Depository Institutions January 1, 2003 December 31, 2009, released October 2010 by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network “Reports of identity theft have been increasing for more than a decade…Identity theft was the sixth most frequently reported characterization of suspicious activity within …
EPIC: “Following numerous protests around the world, Google has ended its illegal collection of wifi data transmissions. The company, which originally claimed it was not even collecting wifi data, was forced to admit that the practice has been ongoing for three years in more than thirty countries, following an independent investigation initiated by European privacy …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) imposes requirements on Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs) – which include the three major credit bureaus – and on employers that use the information to ensure that sensitive consumer report information is used with fairness, impartiality, …
News release: “This is National Protect Your Identity Week, and the Federal Trade Commission, the nations consumer protection agency, has information to help consumers, businesses, and law enforcement officials safeguard personal information and take action if an identity thief strikes. www.ftc.gov/idtheft is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. Consumers …
State of the Internet 2010: A Report on the Ever-Changing Threat Landscape, CA Technologies Internet Security Business Unit Internet Security Intelligence Report, October 2010 “Today approximately 1.8 billion people use the Internet to do everything from conduct business, communicate with friends and family, keep up with current events or simply entertain themselves playing games or …
WSJ: “Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying informationin effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ namesto dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook …
EFF: “As noted in our first post, EFF recently received new documents via our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeleys Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking people online: Citizenship and Immigrations surveillance of social networks to investigate citizenship petitions and the DHSs use …
Follow up to posting, WSJ Tracks how marketers are spying on Internet users, this news release: “Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), Co-Chairman of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, released responses to the letters they had sent to companies identified in a Wall Street Journal investigation as reportedly installing intrusive consumer-tracking technologies …
Escaping the Scrapers: “The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles. The sites gather information from public sources such as property records and telephone listings, and other information is harvested by scraping or copying websites where people …
What They Know – interactive graphic: “Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s …
WSJ: “A former Federal Trade Commission employee has filed a complaint with the agency accusing Google Inc. of not adequately protecting the privacy of consumers search queries. The complaint was filed September 6 by Christopher Soghoian, who worked until August as a technologist with the FTCs Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. It calls on …
