policies

California sues Delta for failing to put privacy policy on mobile app

Delta Airlines is the first target of California regulators, who are enforcing a state law requiring mobile app developers to disclose information about their privacy policies. California attorney general Kamala Harris has sued the...

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Friday, December 7th, 2012 Net News No Comments

New data on privacy policies shows 20 percent of sites may sell data

PrivacyChoice For most people, privacy policies are the boring fine print in a website you may visit. They're nearly always written in legalese, unintelligible to the average person, and on top of that...

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Friday, November 30th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Facebook: A Liability For Billions Of People?

A week ago the planet’s most famous social network (Facebook, of course) announced on their governance page their proposal for new Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Back in April 2009, Facebook...

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Thursday, November 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments

German Pirate Party Provokes With ‘Pirated’ Big Brand Poster Campaign

Founded in 2006, the German Pirate Party has enjoyed several successes in its relatively short life. Most notable was its win in the Berlin state parliament elections in 2011 where Pirates picked up 9%...

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Samsung tells judge: We need to see Apple-HTC settlement

Apple settled its patent disputes with HTC last Saturday, and lawyers from Samsung were paying attention. Papers filed in federal court Friday show that by Monday afternoon, Samsung was asking to get a look...

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Saturday, November 17th, 2012 Net News No Comments