Four big toy firms have agreed to terms to stop allowing third-party online marketers track the internet habits of children under 13. Hasbro and Mattel are among four toy companies who have agreed to stop allowing online marketers track ...
Tags: Hasbro, Mattel, online marketers, internet habits
People are forever complaining about how the digital world has robbed them of something or other. Peace. Anonymity. Freedom itself. I just see possibilities. So I've been keen to follow a new kind of connection made possible by the ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
To coincide with changes to the Privacy Act that commenced recently, Transport Certification Australia (TCA) has emphasised the need to uphold strict privacy safeguards in order to progress the wider use of telematics and C-ITS ...
Kid-safe tablets and smartphones are hitting the market, giving parents more control over how the mobile devices are used. Hollywood studio DreamWorks has joined the move, introducing its DreamTab at this week's Consumer Electronics Show ...
Tags: kid-safe tablet, kid-safe smartphone, DreamWorks, DreamTab, Fuhu
Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 0700) will see stake in Sogou.com, the search engine unit of Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), rise to about 40 percent in the near future. It co-announced with Sohu.com. and Sogou.com in ...
Tags: Tencent, Sogou, service, Computer Products
In every business there comes a situation where you have to interact with tons of papers and documents which are of no use. However, these documents should not be thrown open, as it may contain any confidential information which in return ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
Some websites and mobile app developers are confused about how to comply with revised rules governing the online collection of personal information from children that took effect in the U.S. Monday, critics said. The U.S. Federal Trade ...
The U.S. Congress should press for privacy protections and more information about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, some technology and civil liberties activists said Friday. After recent news leaks about two ...
Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits? Those two privacy issues are bubbling up in Congress, where lawmakers this week filed bipartisan legislation that would give car owners control over data ...
Tags: Black Box Recorder, Lawmaker, DVR Snooping
Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were concerned about privacy violations. In a survey conducted just days before reports surfaced about ...
Tags: NSA Scandal, Privacy Breaches
A California state court has dismissed a closely watched lawsuit charging that Delta Air Lines failed to comply with state privacy laws for mobile applications. In a brief ruling last week, California Superior Court Judge Marla Miller ...
Tags: Mobile Privacy, Computer Products
The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind. On Thursday, Rep. Hank Johnson ...
New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect. The Application Privacy, ...
Tags: U.S.Lawmakers, Computer Products
The wealth of personal data that mobile apps collect on their users needs to be conspicuously stated to consumers or developers could face legal heat, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said Wednesday. Rather than resorting to ...
Tags: App Developers, mobile apps
Facebook has begun rolling out new profile pages redesigned to clear away clutter from "Timelines" that chronicle member postings at the leading social network. "We heard from you that the current timeline layout is sometimes hard to ...