The US Federal Trade Commission said it had updated rules requiring online services to obtain consent from parents if they are aimed at children under 13 or know that they are collecting personal information from young children. But FTC ...
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Speech of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the MOHR Conference, National Centre for Human Rights, Baghdad 19 December 2012. Minister for Human Rights, Engineer Shiya Al Sudaani, Excellencies, Ladies and ...
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An enduring disconnect between information management and infosecurity plagues corporate organizations,say data management experts. This has been a recurrent theme of SearchDataManagementUK interviews with people familiar with the state ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has attacked the government's Communications Data Bill, labelling it a state "snooper's charter", and stating that Wikipedia will encrypt all connections with the UK if the plans to track internet, email and ...
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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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Using its country-specific content-blocking tool for the first time, Twitter has shut down access to a neo-Nazi group's account in Germany. "Never want to withhold content; good to have tools to do it narrowly & transparently," Alex ...
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Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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Privacy advocates and consumer rights groups are keeping a wary eye on a new copyright enforcement mechanism set to be rolled out by major Internet Service Providers. The so-called Copyright Alert System (CAS) aims to warn Internet users ...
With more than 70 percent of Africa's population living in rural areas, access to broadband service in remote regions was a key issue at the recently concluded Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO) meeting in Sierra Leone. In ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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Apple has received rare praise from a leading rights advocacy group for incorporating important new privacy enhancing features in its recently released iOS 6 operating system. In a blog post on Monday, the Center for Democracy and ...
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Facebook said on Monday that data collected from its partnership with loyalty-card tracker Datalogix shows people are swayed to make purchases after merely viewing an ad, even if they did not click on it. The social-networking site, which ...
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The U.S. is trying to erect a national regime of secrecy and obfuscation where any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or for espionage, and the ...
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Many of the country's largest companies lashed out at Microsoft this week, claiming that its decision to turn on the "Do Not Track" privacy feature in Internet Explorer 10 would "harm consumers, hurt competition, and undermine American ...
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With voting open on Facebook's proposed privacy policy changes, more than 110,000 users have weighed in -- and so far, the vote is heavily in favor of not making the change at all. Facebook historically had a rule that any proposed policy ...
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