The ICO has subsequently confirmed that an investigation is now underway.The ICO has launched an investigation into whether Google’s revised March 2012 privacy policy is compliant with the Data Protection Act,” a spokesperson said.
It informs apps developers that the FTC is launching non-public investigations into whether some "entities in the mobile app marketplace" are violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Most apps failed to provide any information about...
barackobama.com is not owned by the government as some may believe, but rather it is registered via GoDaddy with Privacy Protection service, and I highly doubt that the United States government would need privacy protection) This leads us to a...
The Spanish Data Protection Authority asked Google to remove 270 search results linking to blogs and websites that mentioned public figures. Google received a request to remove 70 YouTube videos for violating the German Children and Young Person’s...
Our preliminary analysis shows that Google's new policy does not meet requirements of the European Directive on Data Protection, especially regarding the information provided to data subjects," she said in a letter.
We are aware of this issue and are continuing to make enquiries with Google to ensure that they comply with the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations," ICO said in a statement to V3.
In August 2011, W3 Innovations, LLC, doing business under the less-than-encouraging moniker Broken Thumbs, settled with the FTC on charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule by illegally...
As you will know, we had extensively pre-briefed data protection authorities across the EU prior to the launch of our notification to users on 24 January 2012," Fleischer wrote further on in the letter.
Lamar Smith is trying to resurrect H.R.the Child Protection/Data Retention bill. Meanwhile, Smith is again pushing his Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011; it has been amended, passed the required committees, and was put...
Since some of the information you’ll now find in search results, including Google+ posts and private photos, is already secured by SSL encryption on Google+, we have decided that the results page should also have the same level of security and...
Yahoo takes the protection if its users and brand very seriously," said Yahoo global brand protection legal director Christian Dowell. A U.S.district court in New York issued a ruling in favor of the company, ordering the defendants to pay $583...
The agency alleges the data sharing with advertisers occurred between September 2008 and May 2010, according to Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the FTC's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.
Your protection comes from governance, according to the speakers in the video. Data that can all be obtained by subpoena without your knowledge for court cases, legal actions or sneak and peeks which are part of the USA PATRIOT Act.
In their request, Google said, “Without such additional protection, Google and other non-parties could find their confidential information -- such as Google’s business plans related to Android -- in the hands of competitors (or their competitors...
So the question arises- in what form should consumer protection take within that commerce platform, and conversely, what protections should be afforded to merchants on the platform as well? This week has generated a lot of questions about the...
Give people an immediate chance to reject the offer of future contact (section 11 of the Data Protection Act allows people to prevent their personal information being used for direct marketing). The topic of data collection has been playing on my...
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party of the European Commission has informed Google that keeping unblurred photos for more than a year is not ok. I'm sure it's quite tempting for a company of Google's size to push the envelope but the...
Utah's Misguided Trademark Protection Act Election Year Brings New Efforts to Regulate Search Engine Data Collection Kate Kaye at ClickZ.com is reporting that the Utah House has passed H.B.which is another law the state is considering to regulate...
There are some recent studies as to why this helps to evade the filtering mechanisms employed by e-mail protection software, and Tulsa World recently described the new tactic of using more benign titles and content leading to higher open rates for...
The Attorney General's Office sued Internet Advancement in August 2004, accusing the company of violating the state Consumer Protection Act and Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act. Senior Counsel Paula Selis, an assistant attorney general who leads the...
