Do You Want the Government Buying Your Data From Corporations?
A new bill moving through Congress would give the authorities unprecedented access to citizens’ information.
Online Data Vendors: How Consumers Can Opt Out of Directory Services and Other Information Brokers
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse published a list of data brokers and possibilities to opt out.
No dummy: This mannequin is spying on you – CNET
Retailers are deploying mannequins equipped with cameras that watch for shoplifters and record shopper behavior to improve sales. Several dozen EyeSee mannequins are already watching shoppers and gathering data with their camera eyes.
Online marketer tapped browser flaw to see if visitors were pregnant
An advertising network that served banners on cnn.com, orbitz.com, and 45,000 other sites has settled federal charges that it illegally exploited a decade-old browser flaw that leaks the history of websites users visit.
EPIC – Privacy and Consumer Profiling
What kinds of information are collected? How are they classified, who uses this information, for what reasons? What you can do to avoid having your data sold and being profiled?
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment issues and works to promote the Public Voice in decisions concerning the future of the Internet.
Acxiom, the Quiet Giant of Consumer Database Marketing
Few consumers may have heard of Acxiom, a database marketer. But it has amassed the world’s largest commercial data trove about them.
In a fast-changing digital economy, Acxiom is developing even more advanced techniques to mine and refine data and to predict consumer behavior.
Federal authorities say current laws may not be equipped to handle the rapid expansion of an industry whose players often collect and sell sensitive financial and health information yet are nearly invisible to the public.
How much is your personal data worth?
Explore how valuable your data are with this interactive calculator. While the multibillion-dollar data broker industry profits from the trade of thousands of details about individuals, those bits of information are often sold for a fraction of a penny apiece.
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
How one small American VPN company is trying to stand up for privacy
CEO: “We’ve never been asked for keys nor [have we] handed over user data.”
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