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Privacy
Private Commercial Websites and Publicly Available Sources of Information: Potentially Deceptive?
There was an interesting consumer protection suit filed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General (“AG”) recently. It seems that Waltham, Massachusetts resident Areg A. Sakanyan, who was operating a website, www.unclaimedmoney.us.com, to supposedly help people locate unclaimed money, didn’t provide the advertised service. According to the AG, the site lured consumers to conduct an initial free search and […]
Tagged attorney general, compliance, consumer protection, database, deceptive, disclaimer, disclosure, Massachusetts, unfair, Waltham, website audit, website compliance
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Big Brother and Its Accomplices
In yet another invasion of privacy couched in the rhetoric of “but the consumer will benefit!” comes this story from the Washington Post. Apparently, a small but growing number of ISPs are monitoring their users’ every click and keystroke. The ISPs then harvest the data to determine a user’s interests and preferences and provide it to advertisers who […]
Tagged customer service agreement, deep packet inspection, ISP, monitor, privacy, subpoena
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Kicking Big Brother in the Ankles
After my post about privacy yesterday, it’s nice to know that there are entrepreneurs out there who seek to make sure that our government—which generally has little problem with how private industry treats and shares our personal information—is as transparent as possible when it comes to its own information. According to a story in the […]
Tagged Congress, disclosure, Legistorm.com, privacy
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Say “Cheese!” . . . From Your Bedroom Window
A Pennsylvania couple recently added their names to the long list of people who have sued Google. Aaron and Christine Boring, who own a home in Pittsburgh, have filed suit against Google after learning that their house appears on Google’s controversial “Street View” feature, which allows its users to see an actual street-level view of a particular road, including all […]
Tagged Google, litigation, privacy, street view
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Newsflash: “ISPs Have Control Over Their Subscribers.” And the Point Is?
Talk about a slow news day. A recent article in USA Today discusses the so-called “fine print” in ISP contracts and then concludes that it doesn’t really matter anyway. This non-story highlights the fact that ISP contracts, which their company lawyers draft, give ISPs rights to read their subscribers’ e-mail, block their subscribers from accessing certain […]
No Good Deed . . . .
It’s always refreshing to see companies take affirmative steps to try and protect users from malicious programs that can be inadvertently downloaded onto their computers. Yahoo and McAfee are joining forces to unveil a new security feature designed to warn Yahoo users about potentially dangerous links to software such as adware, spyware, keystroke loggers, and other malicious programs. […]
Tagged adware, criminals, email, hackers, keystroke loggers, malicious programs, malware, realtime blackhole list, security, spam, spyware, technology law
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