The FTC settled this week with TV maker Vizio for spying on its customers and not telling them about it. Vizio agreed to pay a $2 million fine (which I suspect to them is a nuisance fee), get consumer consent, implement a privacy program and conduct a biennial review, among other things. Here are the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For Financial Service firms, the message is clear. Both FINRA and the SEC are looking over your shoulder to make sure that you are taking cyber security seriously. And the fines are not small. From hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, firms big and small are getting whacked with fines. In 2014, the SEC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Advertisers and web site owners have always wanted to know who is visiting their web sites and tracking interests across web sites. Early on advertisers used cookies, but then users started blocking cookies or erasing them. Then they moved on to Flash cookies which are very hard to erase. But of course, a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last December, DHS started asking some foreign visitors for their social media account information. The request is ‘optional’. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Google+, Instagram and others are on a list where visitors are asked to enter their account names. Note that they are not being asked for their passwords. The Feds are trying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One thing about data rich environments – you have to trust that the data keepers do what they say they are going to do. As we all know, Uber collects a lot of data – even data that they don’t know what they will use it for – but surely they will need it in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. All that is about to change and I don’t mean that the Constitution is going to change. Like the Apple-FBI fight earlier this year, Amazon is in a fight with the law and I don’t think it is […]
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