At least a few people are not buying Facebook’s denial of a recent report that private messages were exposed in Timeline. The Wellington Scoop in New Zealand reports: Facebook’s claims that it is impossible for private messages to appear on public Timelines are untrue, says Jack Yan, CEO of the Wellington-based Jack Yan & Associates,…
Month: September 2012
Phone location data privacy issue hits federal court Tuesday
John P. Mello Jr. writes: The U.S. government will be taking a second crack Tuesday at overturning a lower court ruling that’s preventing police from obtaining cell phone location records from two wireless carriers without a search warrant. Now before the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the government’s attempt to obtain 60 days of records…
Ca: Privacy Commissioner should name leaky websites
Michael Geist writes that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada should be more transparent and name the web sites that were leaking consumer information. Commissioner Stoddart had declined to do so: The Privacy Commissioner has not exercised her discretion to publicly name the specific tested organizations at this time. The research was designed to offer a…
A rose by any other name: The curious politics of privacy newspeak
Simon Davies writes: My friend and colleague Robert Ellis Smith was kind enough recently to reprint my “twenty privacy principles that they never taught you at school” blog in his excellent US publication Privacy Journal. I’ve subsequently received a few messages suggesting that I should consider writing about the new language of privacy. This is…