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- Minimize the Risks of Privacy Violations When Operating E-Commerce Web Sites
- In the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of laws, rules and regulations applicable to the collection, use and transfer of personally- identifiable information via the Internet. At the same time, governmental authorities have been demonstrating a new level of commitment to investigating...
- White papers 2002-09-16
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- Analyst: Palm Pre Users Naive About Online Data Privacy
- Some users were surprised to discover that the Palm Pre collects information about their mobile phone use and their whereabouts. However, according to Palm this fact is clearly stated in its Privacy Policy and users can opt out of this function. Should Palm have been more clear? Caveat emptor, says...
- News items 2009-08-15
- Microsoft warns of Hotmail privacy breach
- Software giant Microsoft has urged hundreds of millions of its Hotmail users to change their passwords after a privacy violation has resulted in users' account details posted on the internet. In a blog post on the company site, the Windows Live team has recommended users take a number of security...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Facebook faces lawsuit over privacy concerns
- A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit in the US on Monday that alleges the social networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The lawsuit, which was filed in California's Orange County Superior Court on behalf of five users, seeks a jury trial, as well as damages...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Users file privacy lawsuit against Facebook
- A group of Facebook users has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the social-networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws.The 40-page complaint, which was filed Monday in California's Orange County Superior Court on behalf of five users, seeks a jury trial, as well as damages and attorneys' fees. The...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Facebook hit by user-privacy lawsuit
- By Steven Musil CNET NewsPosted on ZDNet News: Aug 18, 2009 4:52:47 AM The lawsuit, which was filed in California's Orange County Superior Court on behalf of five users, seeks a jury trial, as well as damages and attorneys' fees. The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Canada May Be Key to Facebook Privacy Practices
- TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian regulator may outline new proposals on protecting the privacy of Facebook users on Thursday after the watchdog last month found deficiencies in the social networking website's current practices. The regulator's July report found that information provided by Facebook about its privacy practices is often confusing...
- News items 2009-08-26
- High court won't hear CNN case.
- Media lose case again on privacy-violation issue Media lose case again on privacy-violation issue
- Research articles 1999-06-07
- Who Are the Privacy Police? - Government Activity
- The Federal Trade Commission is trying to regulate privacy online -- but so are the states. DEALING WITH TOYSMART WASN'T fun and games for the Federal Trade Commission. But it was a lesson in how privacy is a very public business. Facing bankruptcy last month, the online toy...
- Research articles 2000-08-14
- Blockbuster Online: Threatening Enforceability of Online Terms of Use
- William S. Galkin, Esq. submits: Background: It was a bad idea. Blockbuster BBI Online participated in Facebook’s Beacon program. As part of the program, when someone with a Facebook account ordered a video through Blockbuster Online, Blockbuster would transmit information on the video ordered to Facebook, which would in...
- External links 2009-05-10
- Data Security: Privacy Test Upshot: You Fail, You're Fired
- If you don't know reviewing credit applications for women's first names is a violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, you likely can't work for Zoot Enterprises - even if the job is limited to answering the phone or sorting mail.The same holds true If you don't know reviewing...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Ensuring Security While Protecting Privacy
- Organizations increasingly face the need to take comprehensive security measures to protect their business interests from misuse and misappropriation. At the same time, they find themselves accused of wrongdoing as those measures generate violation of privacy claims by employees.
- White papers 2003-10-28
- California Privacy Law May Have Far Reaching Impact On Electronic Credit Department
- With the arrival of the Internet and sharing of a customer's financial information electronically, a customer's privacy rights to financial information is now at the forefront of legislation passed by the California legislature, and being considered at the federal level. Bill SB1386, recently adopted by the California legislature, creates a...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Nebraska Court Finds Consent to Test Overrides Privacy Right Violation Claim.
- A Nebraska man cannot claim his privacy was violated under state law when he took a mandatory employment drug test because he consented to that test, a state appellate court held. Jeffrey Polinski was employed by Sky Harbor Air Services Inc. as a lineman...
- Research articles 2001-02-22
- 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rules Verizon worker can sue over
- A Maryland Verizon employee will have another chance to prove that the administrator of the telecommunications giant's disability benefits plan wrongly gave the company private medical information to assist it in its efforts to fire her as a “direct threat” to her co-workers. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court...
- Research articles 2002-05-30
- HIPAA violation liability narrowed
- While doctors, self-insured employers, hospitals, pharmacies and other providers can be prosecuted for violating the privacy of medical records, these entities' workers and outsiders who come into contact with such records cannot be criminally charged, according to a June 1 opinion from the U.S. Justice Department. The opinion, in...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Apple finally reveals why some iPhone apps get a 'yes' at the App Store
- It's been over a year since Apple inaugurated its App Store but it has finally shed some light on how the approval process works. Apple has been reluctant to publicly discuss how developer-created applications get approved but the US government forced its hand by sending an official query regarding the...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Dear iPhone Users: Your Apps are Spying on You
- Recently, Palm came under fire when programmer Joey Hess discovered the Pre's smartphone OS was sending users' GPS locations back to Palm on a daily basis. Although this information was disclosed in the company's privacy policy, the majority of the phone's owners were unaware. The incident raised questions about consumer...
- News items 2009-08-18
- FTC increases security obligations of ChoicePoint
- The Federal Trade Commission has punished ChoicePoint for another data breach after the agency concluded the data broker failed to properly implement security measures as prescribed in the wake of its watershed 2005 incident.The FTC found that ChoicePoint, in April 2008, turned off a security tool that was necessary to...
- News items 2009-10-22
- More Companies Firing People Over Social Media (Mis)use
- Employees should be more careful than ever about what sort of work-related information they post online. A new report indicates that companies are growing increasingly aware of inappropriate sharing, with many incidents resulting in someone getting fired. Proofpoint found that businesses have definitely become wary about blogs. An official statement...
- News items 2009-08-11
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