privacy
News

Angry Birds Is Violating Your Facebook Privacy Much Less Today

USA Today reported yesterday that the Facebook version of Angry Birds had a flunking score of 65 in terms of respecting users’ privacy, according to a group called PrivacyChoice.

May 15, 2011
News

Disney Studio Coughs Up $3 Million For Violating Kiddie Gamers’ Privacy

A $US3 million settlement by Playdom, the Disney social games studio, sends a pretty clear message that the U.S. Child Online Privacy Protection Act isn’t messing around. Violate it, and it will be expensive.

May 5, 2011
PlayStation

Canada’s Privacy Czar Thinks Sony Should Pay

“I was disappointed that Sony did not proactively notify my office… It seems to me that it’s time to begin imposing fines – significant, attention-getting fines – on companies when poor privacy and security practices lead to breaches.” [The Vancouver Sun]

April 21, 2011
Mobile

Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You Go

This is a map of everywhere I’ve been for nearly the last year. Everywhere. I didn’t carry around a special tracking device. The FBI isn’t sending goons in unmarked vans to track me. All I did was use an iPhone. And if you have an iPhone, you’re being tracked right now, too, whether you like it or not.

March 6, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Action Against Hacker Exposes Visitors To His Web Site

Caught in the blast of Sony’s lawsuit against the man who jailbroke the PlayStation 3 is anyone who may have visited his website, under a court order that set off privacy advocates and further angered hackers.

November 15, 2010
News

Is Kinect Reporting What It Sees To Advertisers?

Speaking at an investor’s conference on Thursday, a Microsoft executive offered that Kinect not only knows how many are in the room when an ad’s shown, but what kind of team colours they might be wearing. Uh-oh.

November 5, 2010
News

Microsoft Says Kinect Won’t Invade Your Privacy

Microsoft’s new Kinect device will put an advanced sensor array in the living room of millions of people, an internet-connected set of machine ears and eyes capable of capturing voice, recognising faces and tracking body movement.

October 19, 2010
News

Report: FarmVille ‘Breaks’ Facebook Privacy Rules, Sends Personal Info To Ad Firms

Dozens of Facebook applications, including Zynga’s wildly popular casual games FarmVille, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille, transmit user data in violation of the social network’s privacy settings, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

July 14, 2010
News

ESRB Apologises For Email Leak

Calling it a “truly disappointing” mistake, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board has apologised directly to those whose email addresses it exposed in a reply concerning Blizzard’s now-abandoned plans to require forum members to use their real names.

July 13, 2010
News

People Complaining About Blizzard’s "Real ID" Have Their Email Addresses Exposed

Sometimes irony can be delicious. In this case, it’s a little bit tragic, with the ESRB publicly releasing the email addresses of people who had written to the board to protest… the revelation of private information.

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