California's attorney general has sued Delta Air Lines for failing to include a privacy policy within the company's mobile application, an alleged violation of the state's Online Privacy Protection Act. The lawsuit, filed in Superior ...
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Many mobile apps aimed at children collect and share personal data without notifying parents, potentially violating U.S. law, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Monday. The FTC has launched an investigation of several ...
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AAMI, the leading national car insurer, has made making an insurance claim even quicker and easier with the launch of the new AAMI Claim Assist app. The AAMI Claim Assist app lets AAMI car insurance customers collect the information ...
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Websites,mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations,including getting a parent's permission before collecting geo-location information and photographs from kids,under ...
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When users install Google Maps on their iPhone, the option to share location data with Google is switched on by default. By doing this, Google violates European data protection law, according to a German data protection watchdog. Google ...
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Websites, mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations, including getting a parent's permission before collecting geolocation information and photographs from kids, under ...
The online industry doesn't need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users' privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Even as Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, ...
SOFTWARE companies that make mobile phone apps were being investigated to determine whether they have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from phones and sharing it with advertisers and data ...
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ACE USA has launched the Privacy and Network Security Liability Endorsement to help expand privacy protection coverage for both Healthcare Facilities and Managed Care Organization policies. Complementing the ACE Medical Risk's existing ...
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Virtual Piggy Inc., an innovator in safe-online youth purchasing, announced that the Virtual Piggy service will be integrated into Lipstik Girls ecommerce operations. Lipstik Girls has been offering fun, wearable and fashionable clothing ...
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IDG News Service-Notices will be sent out to developers of up to 100 mobile apps that are not compliant with California privacy law,starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms,the office of the state's ...
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IDG News Service - European privacy authorities have asked Google to tweak the unified privacy policy it introduced on March 1, but have stopped short of asking it to undo all its changes. They set no firm deadline for Google to make the ...
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Twenty-two U.S.privacy and consumer groups have voiced support for a tough online privacy proposal being considered by the European Union,even though some U.S.businesses and government officials have described the proposal as too ...
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A coalition of 17 advocacy groups filed complaints on Wednesday with the U.S.Federal Trade Commission against five prominent companies,including McDonald's,claiming that certain of their online marketing practices violate child privacy ...
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