Fahad HDec 17, 20121 min readInstagram Updates Privacy Policy, Begins Sharing Data With FacebookMark Zuckerberg initiated Facebook’s purchase of Instagram back in April of this year. Today, Instagram officially “friend-ed” Facebook...
Fahad HDec 12, 20122 min readNew Facebook Privacy Changes Feature Simpler Privacy Shortcuts & Request And Removal ToolNo longer will users be required to navigate through both account & privacy settings pages to manage sensitive Facebook information. The...
Fahad HDec 10, 20123 min readFTC: Privacy Disclosures For Kids’ Mobile Apps Incomplete, Deceptivereleased a study of privacy and mobile apps for kids. The study concluded that parents weren’t given enough information in the app stores...
Fahad HNov 20, 20122 min readReport: Majority Of Parents “Concerned” About Kids’ Online Privacy, Advertiser Datreport from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that most US parents are concerned about their kids’ online privacy and also...
Fahad HNov 19, 20122 min readGoogle Puts “Cookiegate” To Bed As More Legal Battles Loomapproved Google’s $22.5 million settlement with the FTC. Some Google critics decried the settlement as having little impact on Google....
Fahad HNov 13, 20121 min readGoogle: Government Requests To Remove Content Spiked In First Half Of 2012Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From...
Fahad HNov 7, 20121 min readGoogle Chrome Browser Joins The Do Not Track ClubChrome browser finally adds support for the “do not track” (DNT) standard. This was previously reported and confirmed by Google but is...
Fahad HOct 29, 20122 min read1.1 Million Facebook Users’ Email Addresses Purchased For $5, Facebook Claims Data Was Scrapedmanaged to purchase 1.1 million user email addresses for the meager price of $5. The majority of the email addresses were from the US,...
Fahad HOct 16, 20123 min readEuropeans: Google Privacy Policy Not Illegal But Please Make Some Changessaber rattling, commentary and anticipation yesterday there was an expectation that Google would be asked by European data protection...
Fahad HOct 15, 20123 min readEuropeans To Ask Google To Change Unified Privacy Policy, Gain User Consent For Data Collectiona single more unified policy that allowed it to combine user data from all Google properties into a single view. Google argued that it...
Fahad HOct 12, 20123 min readSurvey: Most Users Support “Do Not Track” Idea, Don’t Want Websites To Collect TheAmsterdam Privacy Conference held earlier this week in The Netherlands, professors from the UC Berkeley School of Law presented...
Fahad HOct 10, 20122 min readSenator Meddles “With Primal Forces Of Nature,” Opens Investigation Into Data Collectioninitiated what the New York Times called “an extensive investigation of nine leading information brokers.” While their practices are...
Fahad HOct 10, 20122 min readTensions Rise Over “Do Not Track” Rulesrundown on the current, increasingly tense state of “do not track” (DNT) negotiations. The W3C standards body is trying to develop a DNT...
Fahad HSep 24, 20122 min readFacebook Seeking To “Close The Loop” With Offline Sales DataGoogle Wallet and Offers have online-to-offline tracking as one of their long-term objectives. And the advent and growth of smartphones...
Fahad HSep 14, 20122 min readiPhone 5 Already A “Sell Out,” Will Allow Users To Block Ad TrackingiPhone 5 pre-orders went on sale. Unlike some of my colleagues here at SEL/ML I was not up ordering one. But lots of people were and it...
Fahad HAug 23, 20122 min readWill Google’s New “Red Team” Keep It Out Of The Privacy Danger Zone?job listing and several stories this morning Google is building an internal “Red Team” to address privacy and security issues. The job...
Fahad HAug 9, 20122 min readFTC: $22.5M Penalty To Get Google To “Take Its Privacy Obligations More Seriously”It’s the largest penalty ever posed for violation of an existing order by the FTC, according to the Commission, but it represents a drop...
Fahad HAug 1, 20121 min readGoogle To Pay $22.5 Million To Settle “Cookiegate” In Latest Privacy Fineconfirming that the civil penalty Google will pay to settle the “Cookiegate” episode, in which it bypassed the default Safari privacy...
Fahad HJul 27, 20122 min readWhoops: Google Admits It Still Has Some WiFi Payload Data Collected Via Street View CarsGoogle’s collection of such data has sparked numerous governmental investigations around the world — some of which are still in progress....
Fahad HJul 16, 20121 min readSenate Hearing To Examine Facebook’s Facial RecognitionSenate hearing on Wednesday. According to The Hill, Facebook will send Rob Sherman, its Washington DC-based Manager of Privacy and Public...
