Facebook generation's Max Schrems is walloping Facebook with a media-savvy rejection of some fundamental assumptions Read More...
Those of us working on identity technology have to internalize the lessons here Read More...
But despite real positives, the bill as currently formulated leaves me eager to consult a bevy of lawyers... Read More...
The probe is significant because it involves potentially criminal charges that could be applicable to numerous companies Read More...
“Having to get permission from every single parent will be a huge bureaucratic burden and very difficult to achieve." Read More...
"There is a need to have user input into the formation of social norms, because courts interpreting values such as "expectations of privacy" often look to social network sites policies and practices." Read More...
The notion that location information tied to random identifiers is not personally identifiable information is total hogwash. Read More...
Blizzard relents on plan to betray user privacy but clings to demented Facebook fantasy Read More...
Minimal disclosure proof of age program is being expanded due to its initial success Read More...
As the personal phone evolves it will become increasingly obvious that groups within our best tech companies have built businesses based on consciously crafted privacy fibs. Read More...
The company says it may now collect, use, transfer, and disclose our iPhone, iPad or computer identifier and location for any purpose if we opt into iTunes. Read More...
Everything copied is recorded to hard disk and can be extracted by anyone with access to the machine and some readily available software Read More...
Mapping the attendees at a conference to home addresses even when they’ve never consented to any such tracking is not going to be hard if you’ve gone to the trouble of scanning every street in every city in the country. Read More...
What are the implciations of living in a world where it is legal and socially acceptable to drive up and down the streets recording people's MAC addresses and other network traffic? Read More...
Stealing one part of the WiFi packet is as bad as stealing another. Read More...