Consumer Web Freedom at Stake in Anti-Piracy Debate
Free of government intervention, consumers read the news, listen to music, make purchases, view movies and do their finances on the Internet.
But anti-piracy bills making their way through Congress would threaten ...
Twitter Settles FTC Charges of Failing to Secure User Data
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to safeguard the personal information of its users.
It is the first case the FTC has brought against a social ...
Facebook Chief: We Will Add Simpler Privacy Controls
The torrent of opposition from users, privacy advocates and even U.S. lawmakers has prompted the founder and chief executive officer of Facebook to change course and, once again, overhaul privacy controls, particularly ...
Facebook Privacy Issues: Groups Add to Pressure on FTC
The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, is already looking into privacy controls on Facebook, the top social network with more than 400 million users – more than a quarter of them ...
Social Media ‘Explosion’ Spurs Children’s Privacy Review
The “rapid-fire” pace of mobile technology and the “explosion” in social media has warranted a review of an existing federal rule protecting children’s online privacy to make sure it is adequate, the Federal ...
Facebook Beware: FTC’s New Focus is on Consumer Data Privacy
Even before a group of U.S. senators asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into Facebook’s new sharing platform with third-party sites, the agency had declared that data security and privacy have become a ...
Facebook Privacy: Should FTC Set Social Media Guidelines?
When Facebook first revealed it would share personal profile information with third-party partner sites, users and privacy advocates voiced concerns and anger.
Now a U.S. Senator wants the Federal Trade Commission, ...
Blippy Tally: 8 Users’ Credit Card Data Breached
The tally of exposed credit card accounts is up to 8 for Blippy, the new Twitter-like social site that has been coping with a public relations crisis and a privacy breach that caused a wave of users to ask for their ...
Blippy: ‘Subset’ of Users’ Credit Card Info May Still Be Exposed
Blippy’s nightmare scenario of having its users’ credit or debit card numbers exposed – in a limited number of Google searches so far – is not over, a co-founder said today, after yesterday’s ...
Twitter-Like Blippy Exposes Credit Card Numbers in Blunder
Blippy, the Twitter-like social media site that displays posts of users’ credit card purchases, inadvertently had the account numbers of four users come up on Google search results.
The site’s apologetic and ...
