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Facebook was tracking you after you logout. Are they still?
Facebook knows a lot more than you think. The popular social networking site has the ability to track your browsing history and you could accidentally share pages that you did not intend others to see....
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House (Mis)fires First Shot in Battle over Employer Access to Facebook Passwords
While at least one Senator is drafting a bill to stop the “unreasonable invasion of privacy” resulting from employer access to your Facebook page, the House has rejected a similar proposal from...
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Is Your Website COPPA-Compliant?
On March 27th, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has settled its complaint that RockYou, Inc., an online gaming site, allowed hackers to access the personal information of 32 million users...
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Congress to Consider Radically Different Approaches in Cybersecurity Standoff
The House of Representatives has plans to focus on cybersecurity in the coming weeks and, as a result, is slated to consider at least two bills that have gained substantial traction out of committee....
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EPIC Wants FCC’s Full Report on Google Street View
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an internet privacy advocacy group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Wednesday with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for...
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FTC v. Epic Marketplace: It’s not paranoia if…
Remember that Rockwell song from the 80’s: “I always feel like somebody’s watching me…”? Chances are, while you were online, Epic Marketplace was. Earlier today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
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California Attorney General Sues Delta Airlines for Not Having a Privacy...
Not having a privacy policy could be a problem, especially if you collect personally identifiable information from users located in California. Delta Airlines is learning this tip the hard way....
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Another Lesson Learned: Instagram Quickly Backtracks After Angering Its Users
This week, users of Instagram scored a victory with the company’s management over a plan to amend Instagram’s terms of service that would allow the third-party use of users’ photos without their...
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FTC Amends Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA)
For those of you not familiar with COPPA, the FTC passed the act in 1998 and it is designed to help protect the personally identifiable information of Internet users under the age of 13 and gives...
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Piracy, ISPs, and six strikes: not two outs, or even one…
In a voluntary self-policing effort most likely intended to help safeguard their Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) Section 230 immunity from suit, several Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) have...
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DEA Sued for Creating Fake Facebook Account Using Woman’s Photos
How would you like to stumble upon a Facebook page that you did not create, and that also displayed your name and your personal photographs? Better yet, how would you feel if that same page was...
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