Startup HiQ Labs may collect data from people’s LinkedIn profiles, court rules
Company called HiQ Labs wins court OK to scrape profiles on LinkedIn for data about people’s lives and connections. LinkedIn […]
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Facebook: Charting a Way Forward on Privacy and Data Portability
To build portability tools people can trust and use effectively, online services need clear rules about what kinds of data […]
Build an Online Presence Without Giving Up Privacy
Every social network might as well be LinkedIn. Every hiring manager will do a Google search on your name, most […]
Spanish court determines that energy consumption data is personal data
Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that energy consumption data is protected by the Law on Data Protection as they are […]
EU-US launch talks on e-evidence access
EU member states have approved a mandate for the European Commission to launch international negotiations with the U.S. to speed […]
Facebook succeeds in blocking German FCO’s order against combining user data
Facebook has succeeded in blocking the order by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office earlier this year that would have banned it […]
Data Scraping – Considering the Privacy Issues
Data scraping is a general term that describes a plethora of Internet-based data retrieval methodologies, used without the permission of […]
Sharing your pet photos can lead to loss of privacy
People are hyper-vigilant these days about protecting their personal information, all the little details about themselves that can lead to […]
Alexa users can now disable human review of voice recordings
Amazon has given Alexa users the option to disable human review of their voice recordings, and committed to greater clarity […]
FBI proposal outlines plans for large-scale collection of social media data
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning to step up its efforts to monitor social media platforms more aggressively in […]
Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes
In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a […]
Instagram data privacy enabled location tracking of millions of users
Instagram allowed a trusted advertising partner to harvest huge swathes of user data to create detailed files on account holders’ […]